The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice, morality, and redemption from one of Russia's gre...
The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in...
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with th...
Notes from Underground (Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapíski iz podpól'ja, also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld while Notes from Underground is the most literal translation) (1864) is a short nov...
Considéré par plusieurs comme un chef-d'œuvre (Freud lui-même le classe parmi les trois plus grands drames de l'Histoire) et reconnu comme le plus grand roman de Dostoïevski, Les frères Karamazov est difficilement résumable. Autour d'une intrigue ...
The Gambler was written under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man’s exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky–who once gambled away his young wife’s wedding ring–knew int...
The Possessed (In Russian: Бесы, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For an explanation of the marked difference in the English-language title, please see the section "Note on the title" below...
Weisse Nächte
Ein empfindsamer Roman
(Aus den Erinnerungen eines Träumers)
Autor: Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski
Originaltitel: Belye noci
Geschrieben: 1849
Deutsche Übersetzung: Alexander Eliasberg
Übersetzungsjahr: 1881
Quelle: ...
Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's slums between a middle-aged writer and a much younger seamstress.
First published: 1849
Originaltitel: Слабое сердце
Ce livre regroupe une nouvelle et un court roman de l’auteur, regroupés en deux parties par l’éditeur (Librairie Plon) : «Katia» correspond à «La Logeuse» (1847) et le titre original de «Lisa» est «Le Sous-sol» (1863), ce dernier roman étant égale...
«Les Nuits blanches» : Ubn beau roman d'amour. La rencontre, puis les rendez-vous volés aux rues de Saint-Pétersbourg, quatre soirées durant, d'un homme et une femme que leur sensibilité commune rapproche. Deux cœurs solitaires s'ouvrent l'un à l'...
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