The Crocodile (eBook, ePUB) - Dostoevsky, Fyodor
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What if the height of success meant living inside a crocodile?
The Crocodile is Dostoevsky's razor-sharp satire on ego and social madness. Ivan Matveich, an ambitious clerk, is swallowed whole during a public exhibition-yet survives unscathed, loudly insisting that his novel situation is "beneficial for Russia."
As crowds flock to hear his muffled sermons on economics and progress, Dostoevsky exposes the absurd hunger for fame and the hollow jargon of self-styled reformers.
This brisk, modern translation preserves Dostoevsky's biting humor and journalistic energy, clarifying every…mehr

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What if the height of success meant living inside a crocodile?

The Crocodile is Dostoevsky's razor-sharp satire on ego and social madness. Ivan Matveich, an ambitious clerk, is swallowed whole during a public exhibition-yet survives unscathed, loudly insisting that his novel situation is "beneficial for Russia."

As crowds flock to hear his muffled sermons on economics and progress, Dostoevsky exposes the absurd hunger for fame and the hollow jargon of self-styled reformers.

This brisk, modern translation preserves Dostoevsky's biting humor and journalistic energy, clarifying every barb for today's reader while keeping the 1865 setting vivid and strange.

What You'll Discover in This Modern Translation:

- A Hilarious Dissection of Ego - Watch Ivan revel in notoriety even as his prison is a reptile's gut

- A Portrait of Public Hysteria - Bureaucrats, journalists, and gawkers all scramble to exploit the "miracle"

- Timely Political Satire - Dostoevsky lampoons empty "progressive" rhetoric that still echoes in modern discourse

- An Accessible, Fast-Paced Adaptation - Faithful to the original Russian yet crisp for contemporary audiences

Sharply comic and disturbingly relevant, The Crocodile proves that the most dangerous beasts may be human pretensions.

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Autorenporträt
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a famous Russian writer of novels, short stories, and essays. A connoisseur of the troubled human psyche and the relationships between the individuals, Dostoevsky's oeuvre covers a large area of subjects: politics, religion, social issues, philosophy, and the uncharted realms of the psychological. There have been at least 30 film and TV adaptations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel 'Crime and Punishment' with probably the most popular being the British BBC TV series starring John Simm as Raskolnikov and Ian McDiarmid as Porfiry Petrovich.'The Idiot' has also been adapted for films and TV, as has 'Demons' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.