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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants: Translated with an Introduction by Ignat Avsey (Penguin Classics).
Author: The Village of Stepanchikovo
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140446586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with Yegor’s mother and now holds the entire household under his thumb. Watching the absurd theatrics of this domestic tyrant over forty-eight explosive hours, Sergey grows increasingly furious - until at last, he feels compelled to act. A compelling comic exploration of petty tyranny, The Village of Stepanchikovo reveals a delight in life’s wild absurdities that rivals even Gogol’s. It also offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of the characters and situations of many of Dostoyevsky’s great later novels, including The Idiot, Devils and The Brothers Karamazov.
Penguin Classics Introduction to The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Penguin Classics)
Author: Ignat AvseyThe Brothers Karamazov
Author: Robin Feuer MillerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300151721
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel— The Brothers Karamazov—in 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today “remains harrowingly alive in the face of our present day worries, paradoxes, and joys,” observes Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller. In this engaging and original book, she guides us through the complexities of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, offering keen insights and a celebration of the author’s unparalleled powers of imagination. Miller’s critical companion to The Brothers Karamazov explores the novel’s structure, themes, characters, and artistic strategies while illuminating its myriad philosophical and narrative riddles. She discusses the historical significance of the book and its initial reception, and in a new preface discusses the latest scholarship on Dostoevsky and the novel that crowned his career.
Irish Slavonic Studies
Author: American Book Publishing Record
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
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Penguin Classics
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ISBN: 9780147715975
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
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