Uncle's Dream

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Frederick Whishaw (Translator)

Overview

Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmopshere of his earlier stories; instead "Uncle's Dreams" is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and farce in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals.Dostoyevsky's inspiration for "The Meek Girl" came from a newspaper report on the suicide of a seamstress who plunged from a garret window, holding a religious icon in her hands. According to the critic John Jones, it is "one of the most powerful studies of despair in world literature, a banging on closed doors imagined with abosolute fearlessness."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158074561
Publisher:	Starbooks Classics Publishing
Publication date:	12/09/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1821–1881)
Russian novelist and writer of fiction, have had a profound and lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature. Dostoevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was named by Walter Kaufmann as the "best overture for existentialism ever written."