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1) The Double
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Advised by his doctor to become more sociable, Golyadkin, a low-level bureaucrat, arrives uninvited at a birthday party his office manager is having for his daughter. After a number of socially awkward and increasingly uncomfortable moments, Golyadkin is asked to leave and flees the party. While making his way home through a snowstorm, an extraordinary thing happens: Golyadkin meets his double.
At first the two are friendly, but it quickly becomes...
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Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of the most provocative work of literature ever written.
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"The Double" centres on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The motif of the novella is a 'doppelgänger', known throughout the world in various...
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The story "Uncle's Dream" was written by Dostoyevsky after a five-year exile in Siberia and covers the tale of a provincial family desperate to better itself through a marriage of their daughter to a senile prince. The old man is hoodwinked and almost forced into a wedding that is expected to last for a short period before he dies and leaves his fortune to the young girl. There are complications however with the young girl Zina already in love with...
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The Double, written in Dostoevsky's youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelgänger-a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. In the dilemma of this increasingly...
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Considered one of the first existentialist novels, Notes from Underground contains one of the most unsettling characters in 19th-century fiction. Resentful, cruel, entitled and pitiful, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man is a disturbing human being bent on humiliating others for his own amusement. He despises modern society and stews in a self-imposed misery, articulated through his bitter, contradictory monologues about torment and alienation. The Gambler...
8) El idiota
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Proveniente de un establecimiento de salud en Suiza donde un doctor le ha tratado una enfermedad no concretada, el joven príncipe Myshkin (persona esencialmente buena y sin ninguna malicia) regresa a Rusia sin un rublo con el fin de hallar cobijo o ayuda en algunos parientes lejanos. Su aparición e integración en la sociedad de San Petersburgo llevará, precisamente en razón de su carácter, a que todo aquel que entable relación con él, desnudado...
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Ein Pfandleiher lässt sich dazu herab, ein junges Mädchen aus überaus ärmlichen Verhältnissen zu heiraten. Er erwartet Dankbarkeit und Unterordnung seiner Frau, begegnet ihr aber seinerseits nur mit Strenge und Schweigen. In seinem Stolz bemerkt er nicht, dass sie ihm immer mehr entgleitet.
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Der arme Astafi gewährt dem Trunkenbold Jemeljan Unterschlupf. Eines Tages fehlt eine wertvolle Hose aus Astafis Beständen. Er verdächtigt Jemeljan, doch dieser bestreitet vehement seine Schuld ... 5 berühmte Erzählungen des großen russischen Schriftstellers versammelt auf einem Hörbuch: "Der ehrliche Dieb, Eine Silvesterfeierlichkeit und eine Trauung, Polsunkow, Der kleine Knabe "mit dem Händchen", Der kleine Knabe am Weihnachtsabend beim...
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It must have happened on Christmas Eve in some great town in a time of terrible frost. I have a vision of a boy, a little boy, six years old or even younger. This boy woke up that morning in a cold damp cellar. He was dressed in a sort of little dressing-gown and was shivering with cold. There was a cloud of white steam from his breath, and sitting on a box in the corner, he blew the steam out of his mouth and amused himself in his dullness watching...
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First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, "The House of the Dead" is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come...
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After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, "Poor Folk," in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. Early participation in a literary/political group landed the writer in exile in Siberia for nearly a decade, an experience...
15) Crimen y castigo
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"¿Por qué hay que leer Crimen y castigo ?
Pues porque Crimen y castigo es el producto de un genio cuyo mundo gira entre la muerte y la locura, porque Dostoievski era un tío que retornaba vivo de aquellos tenebrosos mundos (sus ataques) directamente para escribir historias que también puedan ser devoradas por la juventud del siglo XXI. Y porque Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievski ha sido el escritor que ha compuesto los análisis psicológicos más...
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Dostoyevsky is the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn', remarked Friedrich Nietzsche. 'He ranks among the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life'. Discover the universal truths and wisdoms of Dostoyevsky in this volume of Dostoyevsky's tales including: An Honest Thief, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, The Peasant Marey.
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Los hermanos Karamázov fue publicada por primera vez, como una serie, entre 1879 y 1880. Fue la última obra del escritor ruso Fiódor Dostoyevski (1821-1881), y es considerada como su mejor novela y, también, la más importante.
Se desarrolla en torno al parricidio de Fiódor Pávlovich Karamázov y los cuestionamientos íntimos y comportamientos de sus tres hijos: Dimitri, Iván y Alekséi, en torno a temas como la culpa, la moral, los debates...
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A predecessor to such monumental works as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov", "Notes from Underground" represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we find a story in two parts, the first a rambling memoir of a bitter, isolated, retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the second part we follow the unnamed narrator through a series of events which further exhibit...
19) Demons
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Demons” - is a work by the classic author of Russian literature and one of the best novel writers in the world F. M. Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881). This is one of the most politicized author's novels. It was written under the impression of the first sprouts of the terroristic and radical movements among the Russian intellectuals and commoners.
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Nesta obra, narrada pelo jovem escritor Ivan, dois enredos vão convergindo gradualmente. Natascha, amiga de infância e amada de Ivan, foge de casa dos pais para casar com Alyosha, o filho do Príncipe Valkovsky que não aprova esta união. Entretanto Ivan conhece Elena, uma órfã de treze anos, que é adotada por Nicolai, o pai de Natascha. E é ao contar a sua triste história que a menina consegue que Nicolai perdoe a sua filha. Uma narrativa...
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