White nights ; and, A gentle creature ; and, The dream of a ridiculous man
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 1821-18812009
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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.
Main title:
White nights ; and, A gentle creature ; and, The dream of a ridiculous man / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Alan Myers with an introduction and notes by W. J. Leatherbarrow
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009
Collation:
132 pages ; 19 cm
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ISBN:
9780199555086
Language:
English
BRN:
2595468
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