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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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Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession": the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title "A Confession".
The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred...
3) 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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A story about vanity and hypocrisy. "She could kill and annihilate and pulverize any rival with a single word." This book focuses on the struggle between and manipulative Maria's Alexandrovna Moskalyova family members. In this novel, vanity and pride are everyday human's obsessions and the word "love" loses its meaning in the socially-arranged marriages.
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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inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity.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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8) Die Sanfte
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Die Erzählung basiert auf zwei Zeitungsmeldungen, in denen von einer Frau berichtet wird, die sich, mit einer Ikone in der Hand, aus dem Fenster eines fünften Stockwerks gestürzt hatte. Der Erzählung geht ein "Vorwort" voraus, in dem ein fiktiver Herausgeber die Erzählung als "fantastisch" bezeichnet. Er bezieht sich weniger auf den Inhalt der realistischen Erzählung als vielmehr auf die Form. "Denken Sie sich einen Mann, der vor der Leiche...
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With keen psychological insight far ahead if its time, leading to wide misinterpretation among critics upon its first publication in 1846, Dostoevsky's second novel is now recognized as one of his most important works and one that inspired literally hundreds of imitations. Unhappy with the negative reception for The Double. Dostoevsky re-wrote his original version of 1846 fifteen years later. Dostoevsky wrote, "This revision, provided with an introduction,...
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Eine der schönsten Liebesgeschichten der Weltliteratur. "Es war eine wundervolle Nacht, eine solche Nacht, wie sie vielleicht nur vorkommen kann, wenn wir jung sind, liebe Leser." Ein junger Mann trifft eines Nachts in Sankt Petersburg ein weinendes junges Mädchen namens Nastenka, die verzweifelt die Rückkehr ihres Geliebten erwartet. Er spricht sie an, woraus eine Freundschaft und im Lauf der folgenden Nächte eine zarte Liebe entsteht. Sie treffen...
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Vor vielen Jahren hatte der verarmte Adlige Alexej Weltschaninow eine Affäre mit der verstorbenen ersten Frau seines früheren Bekannten Pawel Pawlowitsch. Dieser hat nach dem Tod seiner Frau davon erfahren und so taucht er überraschend mit seiner Tochter Lisa bei Weltschaninow auf. Pawlowitschs merkwürdiges Verhalten deutet darauf hin, dass er sich rächen will und Weltschaninow bekommt es mit der Angst zu tun. Tatsächlich. Anfangs weiß Pawlowitsch...
12) Demons
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One of Dostoyevsky's most famous novels, this 1872 work utilizes five main characters and their philosophical ideas to describe the political chaos of Imperial Russia in the nineteenth century. Based on an actual event involving the murder of a revolutionary by his comrades, this novel depicts a band of ruthless radicals attempting to incite revolt in their small, rural community. At the center of "Demons" lies Dostoyevsky's desire to protest the...
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One of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment tells the tragic story of Raskolnikov-a talented former student whose warped philosophical outlook drives him to commit murder. Surprised by his sense of guilt and terrified of the consequences of his actions, Raskolnikov wanders through the slums of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg trying to escape the ever-suspicious Porfiry, the official investigating...
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Extrait : "Dans l'escalier, il eut la chance de ne pas rencontrer sa logeuse. Elle habitait à l'étage au-dessous, et sa cuisine, don’t la porte était presque constamment ouverte, donnait sur l'escalier. Quand il avait à sortir, le jeune homme était donc obligé de passer sous le feu de l'ennemi, et chaque fois il éprouvait une maladive sensation de crainte qui l'humiliait et lui faisait froncer le sourcil."
15) L'Idiot
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Extrait : "C'était à la fin de novembre ; par un temps de dégel, humide et brumeux, le train de Varsovie arrivait à toute vapeur à Pétersbourg. Le brouillard était tel qu'à neuf heures du matin on voyait à peine clair ; à droite et à gauche de la voie ferrée il était difficile d'apercevoir quelque chose par les fenêtres du wagon."
17) El jugador
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No hay nada de glamour en las salas de juego de la inquietante ciudad-balneario de Ruletenburgo, ni elegantes caballeros de modales refinados, ni vaporosas damas de belleza sin igual. Ni siquiera el brillo del oro apilado. Sólo hay chusma continental: haraganes y golfillas, representantes de la sinvergonzonería europea de alta alcurnia de la época. El ansia por conseguir dinero fácil se disfraza de noble desdén... hasta que la turbación generada...
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Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into English
Long before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. First published in 1861, this novel, based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a political prisoner, is a forerunner of his famous novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
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19) The Gambler
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First published in Russian in 1866, "The Gambler", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is a gripping narrative of the dangers of gambling. As was common with Dostoyevsky's other writings, he draws upon his own life in a semi-autobiographical way. Dostoyevksy himself suffered from a compulsion to gambling and had to complete "The Gambler" under a strict deadline to pay off his own debts. These first-hand experiences bring a depth of realism to the novel and to...
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The semiautobiographical prison account of convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, from the author of Crime and Punishment.
Originally published in 1862, The House of the Dead is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's own four-year imprisonment in Siberia for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This masterpiece of Russian literature begins with a nameless narrator coming upon former convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov in a remote Siberian...
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