About this title: In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how ...
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 8/19/1999
ISBN-13:9780192838285ISBN:0192838288
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 8/19/1999
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Publisher: John Lehmann
Date Published: 1950
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780192838285ISBN:0192838288
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1999-08-19
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. LEHMANN
Date Published: 1950
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: LEHMANN
Date Published: 1950
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. LEHMANN
Date Published: 1950
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