Dostoyesky's anti-hero is the the first of a long line of existential anti-heroes who followed later in the 20th century. Clearly, here is an utterly loathsome man who is alienated from his brethren by virtue of his own worldview and is victimized by it. In his sublime genius Dostoyevsky sufficie...
‘To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.’I have been giving a lot of thought to this novel lately. Despite the three years that have gone by since reading Crime and Punishment—three years in which I’ve read some outstanding literature, joined Goodreads and writt...
مدتی پیش، دوست فاضلم، حسین خلج، به شفاف سازی مسئله مهمی در «یادداشتهای زیرزمینی» داستایوفسکی پرداخت: حقارتبعد از آن نوشتار جذاب و گیرا دیگر جالب نیست من هم به این نکته بپردازم، به خصوص که حسین به جوانب متعددی پرداخته و الحق از پس نوعی «پدیدارشناسی حقارت» برآمده بود. اما با کسب اجازه از مولف(!) گم...
Dostoevsky published The Eternal Husband in 1869. This was right around the middle of the period during which he wrote almost all of the works- Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov- that casual readers will be familiar with. The Eternal Husband differs from his...
This might still be the single greatest novel of all time. I'm open to suggestions but I don't know what can top it for philsophical suggestiveness, moral rigor, influence, entertainment value, poetry, drama....Freud took the ideas of the id, ego, and super-ego from the sons of the sinister, lee...
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk ...
Golyadkin. Our hero passed a very bad night; that is, he did not get thoroughly off to sleep for five minutes: as though some practical joker had scattered bristles in his bed. He spent the whole night in a sort of half-sleeping state, tossing from side to side, from right to left, moaning and gr...
So Be It! THE elder’s absence from his cell had lasted for about twenty-five minutes. It was more than half-past twelve, but Dmitri, on whose account they had all met there, had still not appeared. But he seemed almost to be forgotten, and when the elder entered the cell again, he found his...
Colia took the prince to a public-house in the Litaynaya, not far off. In one of the side rooms there sat at a table—looking like one of the regular guests of the establishment—Ardalion Alexandrovitch, with a bottle before him, and a newspaper on his knee. He was waiting for the prince, and no so...
On the eve of the great day the convicts scarcely ever went to work. Those who had been assigned to the sewing workshops, and a few others, went to work as usual; but they went back almost immediately to the convict prison, separately, or in parties. After dinner no one worked. From the early mor...