Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dernière sortie

The Friend of the Family

A blustering interloper and a meek aristocrat struggle for control of a country estate, in this comic novel by the author of Crime and Punishment. "Avsey's excellent translation and stimulating introduction and notes enable the reader to appreciate this novel, and its weird humour, to the full." - TelegraphFull of pace, effervescence and grotesque comedy, this short novel by the renowned author of Crime and Punishment represents an antic mode insufficiently known to English readers, and presented here in the first translation since Constance Garnett's version of the 1920s.
Set on a remote country estate, the story concerns a household completely under the sway of the despotic charlatan and humbug Foma Fomich Opiskin, one of the most notorious creations in Russian literature. The owner of the estate, Colonel Rostanev, a meek, soft-hearted giant of a man, is cruelly dominated by Opiskin. With deftly controlled suspense amid a teeming variety of wildly eccentric minor characters, the novel builds up to a confrontation between these two.
Will Rostanev give way to Opiskin's cruelty and sacrifice the love of his life? Or will his sense of honor finally push him to resist the tyrant's demands?Written in the year of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's return to St Petersburg after his exile, it is perhaps his most important early work. It is the link between Gogol and Chekhov; it is almost Dickensian in its comic proliferation of imaginative characters.
In the chaos which spreads out from the roiling center of the dominant Opiskin, Dostoevsky draws a picture of a Russia on the verge of upheaval and transformation.
A blustering interloper and a meek aristocrat struggle for control of a country estate, in this comic novel by the author of Crime and Punishment. "Avsey's excellent translation and stimulating introduction and notes enable the reader to appreciate this novel, and its weird humour, to the full." - TelegraphFull of pace, effervescence and grotesque comedy, this short novel by the renowned author of Crime and Punishment represents an antic mode insufficiently known to English readers, and presented here in the first translation since Constance Garnett's version of the 1920s.
Set on a remote country estate, the story concerns a household completely under the sway of the despotic charlatan and humbug Foma Fomich Opiskin, one of the most notorious creations in Russian literature. The owner of the estate, Colonel Rostanev, a meek, soft-hearted giant of a man, is cruelly dominated by Opiskin. With deftly controlled suspense amid a teeming variety of wildly eccentric minor characters, the novel builds up to a confrontation between these two.
Will Rostanev give way to Opiskin's cruelty and sacrifice the love of his life? Or will his sense of honor finally push him to resist the tyrant's demands?Written in the year of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's return to St Petersburg after his exile, it is perhaps his most important early work. It is the link between Gogol and Chekhov; it is almost Dickensian in its comic proliferation of imaginative characters.
In the chaos which spreads out from the roiling center of the dominant Opiskin, Dostoevsky draws a picture of a Russia on the verge of upheaval and transformation.

Les livres de Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Crime and Punishment
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3,99 €
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Notes from the Underground
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The Idiot
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Notes from the Underground
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2,99 €
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The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time
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1,99 €
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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0,99 €
Crime and Punishment. Illustrated
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett
E-book
0,99 €
The Idiot. Illustrated
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Eva Martin
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0,99 €
White Nights. Illustrated
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
E-book
0,99 €
Poor Folk: A Quick Read edition
Quick Read, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, C. J. Hogarth
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4,99 €
The Gambler: A Quick Read edition
Quick Read, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, C. J. Hogarth
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4,99 €
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Nelson
Audiobook
0,99 €