A Gentle Creature and other stories - Softcover

Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Myers, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192838288 ISBN 13: 9780192838285

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Myers is a freelance translator. W. J. Leatherbrow is Reader in Russian at Sheffield University. The same team worked on Dostoevsky's The Idiot in World's Classics.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192838288
• ISBN 13: 9780192838285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160