Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Uncle's Dream (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 412 Min.
Sprecher: May, Roger / Übersetzer: Garnett, Constance

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Produktbeschreibung

"In our society, everything is merged; everything has become a commonplace." Written during Dostoyevsky's exile in Siberia, Uncle's Dream (1859) is a rare foray into comedy; a witty and ironic portrayal of 19th century provincial society and its morals and human weaknesses. When the ageing Russian Prince K. arrives in the fictional small town of Mordasov, Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, the doyenne of local society, schemes to marry him to her daughter, Zina, in order to secure her future. But she has reckoned without the prince's failing memory and chaos ensues, revealing the absurdities of social ambition and the emptiness of societal norms. While comedic in nature, Uncle's Dream nonetheless possesses all the hallmarks of the author's philosophical and psychological insight into human folly and vanity and reflects his ongoing exploration of moral choices and the absurd situations arising from societal pressures. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer renowned for his profound explorations of psychology, morality, and the human condition. Born in Moscow, his tumultuous life was marked by early literary success and followed by arrest and exile due to his radical political activities. He is widely regarded as one of the world's finest novelists, penning classics that include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. His work has had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction and his ideas have profoundly shaped literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SNR Audio
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805360698
• Artikelnr.: 73320253

Autorenporträt

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, Dostoevsky 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.