Φιοντόρ Ντοστογιέφσκι
The Landlady is a novella by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written in 1847. Set in Saint Petersburg, it tells of an abstracted young man, Vasily Mikhailovich Ordynov, and his obsessive love for Katerina, the wife of a dismal husband whom Ordynkov perceives as a malignant fortune-teller or mystic. The story has …
"White Nights" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in first person by a nameless narrator; the narrator is living in Saint Petersburg and suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love …
An introduction by Agnes Cardinal, Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the …
“What I am writing now is a tendentious thing,” Dostoyevsky wrote to a friend in connection with his first outline for The Devils. “I feel like saying everything as passionately as possible. (Let the nihilists and the Westerners scream that I am reactionary!) To hell with them. I shall say everything to the last …
Οι φτωχοί είναι το πρώτο μυθιστόρημα, σύντομο στην έκτασή του, του Φιοντόρ Ντοστογιέβσκι το οποίο εκδόθηκε στα τέλη Ιανουαρίου του 1846
Το μυθιστόρημα Ο παίκτης του Φιοντόρ Ντοστογιέφσκι γράφτηκε και δημοσιεύτηκε το 1866. Κάτω από την πίεση των πιστωτών του, Ο Ντοστογιέφσκι όφειλε ως την 1η Νοεμβρίου 1866 να παρουσιάσει ένα νέο μυθιστόρημα το οποίο θα συμπεριελαμβανόταν στα Άπαντά του, που θα εκδίδονταν από τον εκδότη Στελόφσκι. Στην περίπτωση μη …
First published in 1846, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella "The Double" is a classic doppelgänger and the second major work published by the author. It is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk who believes that a fellow clerk has taken over his identity and is determined to bring about his ruin. …
Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator who is a …
Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is "not at all inferior to the other great masterpieces," and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, and, above all, …