White Nights and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486469484 ISBN 13 : 9780486469485

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2009

Synopsis

Book by Dostoyevsky Fyodor

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 lone-liness 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. ‘The Dream of a Ridiculous Man’ shows 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 rediscov-ery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. ‘Notes from the Underground’ is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and Europe at the time.

Présentation de l'éditeur

White Nights and Other Stories - The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky. 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 with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover with whom she is finally reunited. Film adaptations have been made by Italian director Luchino Visconti (Le notti bianche, 1957), by Russian director Ivan Pyryev (Belye nochi, 1959), by French director Robert Bresson (Four Nights of a Dreamer, 1971), by Iranian director Farzad Motamen (Shabhaye Roshan, 2003), by Indian film directors Manmohan Desai (Chhalia, 1960), Jananadhan (Iyarkai, 2003), Shivam Nair (Ahista Ahista, 2006) and Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Saawariya, 2007), and by American director James Gray (Two Lovers, 2008).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0486469484
• ISBN 13: 9780486469485
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256