White nights
Subtitle: A gentle creature ; The dream of a ridiculous man
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Alan Myers ; with an introduction and notes by W.J. Leatherbarrow.
Contributors: Myers, Alan.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780199555086
Subjects: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881 -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Other titles: Gentle creature and other stories
Work titles: Short stories.
Description: In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from "living life." A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation as well as moral indifference, and how, in Dostoevsky's view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can only be resolved by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility toward other people. No other edition brings together these specific stories--which are most interesting when read alongside one another--and the new translations capture all the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing at its besT.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.