Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of the most provocative work of literature ever written. In...

Advised by his doctor to become more sociable, Golyadkin, a low-level bureaucrat, arrives uninvited at a birthday party his office manager is having for his daughter. After a number of socially awkward and increasingly uncomfortable moments, Golyadkin is asked to leave and flees the party. While making his way home through a snowstorm, an extraordinary thing happens: Golyadkin meets his double. At first the two are friendly, but it quickly becomes...

Vor vielen Jahren hatte der verarmte Adlige Alexej Weltschaninow eine Affäre mit der verstorbenen ersten Frau seines früheren Bekannten Pawel Pawlowitsch. Dieser hat nach dem Tod seiner Frau davon erfahren und so taucht er überraschend mit seiner Tochter Lisa bei Weltschaninow auf. Pawlowitschs merkwürdiges Verhalten deutet darauf hin, dass er sich rächen will und Weltschaninow bekommt es mit der Angst zu tun. Tatsächlich. Anfangs weiß Pawlowitsch...

With keen psychological insight far ahead if its time, leading to wide misinterpretation among critics upon its first publication in 1846, Dostoevsky's second novel is now recognized as one of his most important works and one that inspired literally hundreds of imitations. Unhappy with the negative reception for The Double. Dostoevsky re-wrote his original version of 1846 fifteen years later. Dostoevsky wrote, "This revision, provided with an introduction,...

One of Dostoyevsky's most famous novels, this 1872 work utilizes five main characters and their philosophical ideas to describe the political chaos of Imperial Russia in the nineteenth century. Based on an actual event involving the murder of a revolutionary by his comrades, this novel depicts a band of ruthless radicals attempting to incite revolt in their small, rural community. At the center of "Demons" lies Dostoyevsky's desire to protest the...

Extrait : "C'était à la fin de novembre ; par un temps de dégel, humide et brumeux, le train de Varsovie arrivait à toute vapeur à Pétersbourg. Le brouillard était tel qu'à neuf heures du matin on voyait à peine clair ; à droite et à gauche de la voie ferrée il était difficile d'apercevoir quelque chose par les fenêtres du wagon."

Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into English Long before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. First published in 1861, this novel, based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a political prisoner, is a forerunner of his famous novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. The characters and situations that...

Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession": the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title "A Confession". The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred...

This vintage book contains a collection of short stories by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, including his famous 1848 story of the tragic drunkard: "An Honest Thief".

Extrait: "Je m'éveillai dans un lit bien blanc et bien doux et j'aperçus autour de moi, dans la chambre, des tapis épais, des meubles magnifiques. Le demi-jour qui filtrait entre les rideaux demi-clos de la fenêtre immense mettait sur toutes choses un air fantastique et mystérieux. Est-ce que je rêvais?"