In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer’s romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from “living life.” A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation as well as moral indifference, and how, in Dostoevsky’s view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can only be resolved by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility toward other people.
No other edition brings together these specific stories–which are most interesting when read alongside one another–and the new translations capture all the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky’s writing at its best.
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“I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them!”
فئودور داستایفسکی، نویسندهی مشهور و تاثیر گذار اهل روسیهست. ویژگی منحصر به فرد کارهای داستایوسکی، بررسی زوایای روانی شخصیتها و نگاه دقیق و موشکافانهاش به انسانه. داستایوسکی قبل از چاپ شدن آثارش، به عنوان مترجم فعالیت میکرد.