Dostoyevsky: 334 books

The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent...

Imagine living in an adult world with the emotional patience of a child. Dostoevsky has provided his readers with a first person account of this form of existential existence, with its highs and its lows and its lack of predictability. In particular, this is a story about addiction, a gambling addiction....

Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal — beautifully handled in this small masterpiece.

Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman Des Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay only a small amount of his debt. Alexei is hopelessly in love with Polina, the General's stepdaughter, and swears an oath of servitude to her.

Can too much love be fatal? You are about to find out in this exquisite psychological drama between the owner of a pawnshop and his wife. The narrator's marriage started out cordially enough, but his miserly and reserved ways are taxing to his young wife. A dearth of communication and disagreements about...

Dostoïevski a 40 ans lorsqu'il écrit Humiliés et Offensés, peu après son retour d'exil en Sibérie, pour soutenir une revue appartenant à son frère. C'est encore une oeuvre de «jeunesse». Vania, le narrateur, est écrivain de son état. Il recueille Nelly une jeune orpheline dont la mère...

«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'autre dans cette douceur du soir qui est sans...

Christian Ivanovitch, reprit notre héros, d’une voix étouffée mais grave et empreinte de solennité, en s’arrêtant à chacune de ses phrases, Christian Ivanovitch, en entrant chez vous, j’ai commencé par des excuses. Maintenant je vais répéter ce que j’ai déjà dit et, pour cela, je...

Ce livre contient un tableaux de contenu HTML pour faciliter la lecture. Un destin détruit et illuminé par l'amour d'une femme.

The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince Lyov 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...

him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate—was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and,...

A young, lonely man strolls the streets of St. Petersburg contemplating his solitude when he happens upon a young woman in tears. While escorting her home, the two strike up a conversation and soon become friends, meeting up at night to share their stories. When the young woman, Nastenka, explains...

Le prince Mychkine est un être fondamentalement bon, mais sa bonté confine à la naïveté et à l'idiotie, même s'il est capable d'analyses psychologiques très fines. Après avoir passé sa jeunesse en Suisse dans un sanatorium pour soigner son épilepsie (maladie dont était également atteint...

La maison des morts, c'est le bagne de Sibérie où Dostoïevski a purgé comme condamné politique une peine de quatre années de travaux forcés et de six ans de «service militaire». Mais la maison des morts, c'est aussi le Goulag. La Russie de Dostoïevski est déjà celle de Staline, de Beria,...