| White Nights Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1986785440 ISBN-13: 9781986785440 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.90 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |