The Possessed (the Devils), Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich

Автор: Dostoyevsky Fyodor
Название: White Nights
ISBN: 0241252083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241252086
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Автор: Dostoyevsky Fyodor
Название: The Double
ISBN: 1502366061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781502366061
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Цена: 9190.00 T
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Описание: The Double is a classic work of Russian fiction by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that centers 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 Double centers 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 doppelg nger (dvoynik). Golyadkin is a titular councillor. This is rank 9 in the Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great. As rank eight led to hereditary nobility, being a titular councillor is symbolic of a low-level bureaucrat still struggling to succeed. Golyadkin has a formative discussion with his Doctor Rutenspitz, who fears for his sanity and tells him that his behavior is dangerously antisocial. He prescribes "cheerful company" as the remedy. Golyadkin resolves to try this, and leaves the office. He proceeds to a birthday party for Klara Olsufyevna, the daughter of his office manager. He was uninvited, and a series of faux pas lead to his expulsion from the party. On his way home through a snowstorm, he encounters his double, who looks exactly like him. The following two thirds of the novel then deals with their evolving relationship. Double has been interpreted in a number of ways. Looking backwards, it is viewed as Dostoevsky's innovation on Gogol. Looking forwards, it is often read as a psychosocial version of his later ethical-psychological works. These two readings, together, position The Double at a critical juncture in Dostoevsky's writing at which he was still synthesizing what preceded him but also adding in elements of his own. One such element was that Dostoevsky switched the focus from Gogol's social perspective in which the main characters are viewed and interpreted socially to a psychological context that gives the characters more emotional depth and internal motivation. As to the interpretation of the work itself, there are three major trends in scholarship. First, many have said that Golyadkin simply goes insane, probably with schizophrenia. This view is supported by much of the text, particularly Golyadkin's innumerable hallucinations. Second, many have focused on Golyadkin's search for identity. One critic wrote that The Double's main idea is that "'the human will in its search for total freedom of expression becomes a self-destructive impulse.'" This individualistic focus is often contextualized by scholars, such as Joseph Frank, who emphasize that Golyadkin's identity is crushed by the bureaucracy and stifling society he lives in. The final context of understanding for The Double that transcends all three categories is the ongoing debate about its literary quality. While the majority of scholars have regarded it as somewhere from "too fragile to bear its significance" to utterly unreadable, there have been two notable exceptions. Dostoevsky wrote in A Writer's Diary that "Most decidedly, I did not succeed with that novel; however, its idea was rather lucid, and I have never expressed in my writings anything more serious. Still, as far as form was concerned, I failed utterly." Vladimir Nabokov, who generally regarded Dostoevsky as a "rather mediocre" writer called The Double "the best thing he ever wrote," saying that it is "a perfect work of art.

Автор: Dostoyevsky,
Название: The Gambler and A Nasty Business
ISBN: 0241259584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241259580
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 4310.00 T
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Описание: `40,000 francs, which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes.` Written in twenty-six days to pay off Dostoyevsky`s own roulette debts, The Gambler is a graphic psychological study of addiction, accompanied here by a brilliant short story of excruciating social embarrassment. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series

Автор: Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
Название: Crime and Punishment
ISBN: 1976501660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781976501661
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Цена: 32930.00 T
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Автор: Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
Название: The Brothers Karamazov
ISBN: 1546768777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781546768777
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Автор: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Название: The Possessed: The Devils
ISBN: 1544770111 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781544770116
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Цена: 29060.00 T
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Описание: The Possessed, 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. An extremely political book, The Possessed is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences.

Автор: Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
Название: Notes from Underground
ISBN: 0615931286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615931289
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Автор: Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
Название: Crime and Punishment
ISBN: 0615934137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615934136
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Цена: 21830.00 T
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Автор: Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Fyodor
Название: The Idiot
ISBN: 1544213727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781544213729
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Автор: Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
Название: Possessed: (The Devils)
ISBN: 1544091044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781544091044
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Автор: Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Fyodor
Название: The Possessed: (The Devils)
ISBN: 1545067600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545067604
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Автор: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Название: The Idiot
ISBN: 1981280944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781981280940
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Цена: 33030.00 T
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Описание: The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man". The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved.