Bibliograph

White nights ;, A gentle creature ; The dream of a ridiculous man, Fedor Dostoevsky ; translated by Alan Myers ; with an introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow

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White nights ;, A gentle creature ; The dream of a ridiculous man, Fedor Dostoevsky ; translated by Alan Myers ; with an introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page xxiv)

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

White nights ;

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

131609404

Responsibility statement

Fedor Dostoevsky ; translated by Alan Myers ; with an introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow

Series statement

The World's classics

Sub title

A gentle creature ; The dream of a ridiculous man

Summary

In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky's view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings

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White nights ; A gentle creature ; The dream of a ridiculous manGentle creature and other stories

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