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The Karamazov Brothers
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 870 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20122015-08-14
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As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to patricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one distunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social, psychological and philosophical relationships. At the same time he shows — from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a personal appearance by an eccentric Devil — that his dramatic skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers, completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of the modern malaise. It cast a long shadow over D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century European literature.
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Notes from the Underground
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Dover Publications Издательство: Dover Publications Год: 1992 Страниц: 91 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20091996-03-24
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Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19'th and 20'th century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
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Crime and Punishment
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2000 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20092001-12-20
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Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.
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Poor People
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Издательство: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him.
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Humiliated and Insulted
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Издательство: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2012 Страниц: 450 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20152015-02-29
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Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is not at all inferior to the other great masterpieces and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and, above all, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful literary presence in his own right. This new translation catches the verve and tumult of the original, which — in concept and execution — affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author.
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Demons
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092001-09-24
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Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, this novel castigates the fanaticism of the country`s revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. It presents a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a study of terrorism.
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The Double
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Издательство: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2013 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142014-12-20
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Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially succesful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement.
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Crime and Punishment
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20172018-03-28
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Will I really — I mean, really — actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces? Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood... axe in hand? Lord, will I really? This new translation of Dostoevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881. Oliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is general editor of the anthology, The Ties of Blood: Russian Literature from the 21st Century (2008), and Consultant Editor for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe at the Times Literary Supplement. As Director of the Russkiy Mir Programme at St Antony's, he runs events and conferences devoted to Russian culture.
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I fratelli Karamazov
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Le Monnier (Mondadori Ed.) Издательство: Le Monnier (Mondadori Ed.) Год: 2014 Страниц: 812 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20172016-07-23
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I tre figli di Fedor Karamazov, un vecchio malvagio e dissoluto, sono molto diversi tra loro. Dmitrij, detto Mitja, odia il padre perché vuole conquistare col suo denaro Grusenka, una bella mantenuta da lui amata. Ivan è un filosofo dell'ateismo e un raffinato intellettuale. Alesa, il più giovane, è novizio in un convento e si trova costretto a tornare a casa per il precipitare degli eventi. Infine un quarto figlio illegittimo è Smerdiakov, epilettico e tenuto in casa come un servo. Il vecchio viene ucciso, è accusato del delitto Mitja, ma Smerdakov confessa a Ivan di essere lui il colpevole, poi si impicca. Mitja viene condannato ai lavori forzati, Ivan è colpito da una febbre cerebrale, Alesa riprende con alcuni giovani la via della spiritualità.
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Devils
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20142011-12-26
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This title includes an introduction by A.D.P. Briggs and translated by Constance Garnett. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of «Devils», a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the time. The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destruction, might seem exaggerated — until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. The key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Nikolay Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime — in a chapter long suppressed by the censor. This prophetic account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some critics as Dostoevsky's masterpiece.
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