Fyodor Dostoevsky

White Nights and Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Garnett, Constance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

White Nights and Other Stories gathers some of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most profound explorations of the human heart and mind. Dostoevsky, the towering Russian novelist best known for "Crime and Punishment", reveals both torment and tenderness in these pages. This edition includes "White Nights", a wistful tale of love and solitude, "Notes from the Underground", a groundbreaking psychological confession, and other masterpieces such as "A Faint Heart", and "Polzunkov". Together they illuminate the depths of human longing and moral struggle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aniara
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789190075883
• Artikelnr.: 75614083

Autorenporträt

The narrator-referred to in this SparkNote as the Underground Man-introduces himself. He describes himself as sick, wicked, and unattractive, and notes that he has a problem with his liver. He refuses to treat this ailment out of spite, although he understands that keeping his problems from doctors does the doctors themselves no harm. The Underground Man explains that, during his many years in civil service, he was wicked, but that he considers this wickedness a kind of compensation for the fact that he never accepted bribes. He almost immediately revises this claim, however, admitting that he never achieved genuine wickedness toward his customers, but only managed to be rude and intimidating as a kind of game. We learn that the Underground Man has retired early from his civil service job after inheriting a modest sum of money. He only held onto his low-ranking job so that he would be able to afford food, not because he got any satisfaction from it. He notes that he is filled with conflicting impulses: wickedness, sentimentality, self-loathing, contempt for others. His intense consciousness of these opposing elements has paralyzed him. He has settled into his miserable corner of the world, incapable of wickedness and incapable of action, loathing himself even as he congratulates himself on his own intelligence and sensitivity. He adds that the weather in St. Petersburg is probably bad for his health, but that he will stay there anyway, out of spite.