Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow", and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.

Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows. Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town. All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their complexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside. When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third-class carriages found themselves opposite each other. Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation. If they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third-class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company. One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, with black curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes. His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical-it might almost be called a malicious-smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face. A special feature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave to the whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a sort of passionate and suffering expression which did not harmonize with his impudent, sarcastic smile and keen, self-satisfied bearing. He wore a large fur-or rather astrachan-overcoat, which had kept him warm all night, while his neighbour had been obliged to bear the full severity of a Russian November night entirely unprepared. His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it-the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Switzerland or North Italy-was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg. The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an intent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity as well as evidence, of an epileptic subject. His face was decidedly a pleasant one for all that; refined, but quite colourless, except for the circumstance that at this moment it was blue with cold. He held a bundle made up of an old faded silk handkerchief that apparently contained all his travelling wardrobe, and wore thick shoes and gaiters, his whole appearance being very un-Russian. His black-haired neighbour inspected these peculiarities, having nothing better to do, and at length remarked, with that rude enjoyment of the discomforts of others which the common classes so often show: "Cold?" "Very," said his neighbour, readily, "and this is a thaw, too. Fancy if it had been a hard frost I never thought it would be so cold in the old country. I've grown quite out of the way of it." "What, been abroad, I suppose?" "Yes, straight from Switzerland." "Wheugh my goodness " The black-haired young fellow whistled, and then laughed.

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El sue o del pr ncipe es una novela corta escrita en 1859, siete a os antes que Crimen y castigo. En ella encontramos muchos de los temas que obsesionaban a Dostoiewski -la exploraci n de la vida rusa y de los motivos ocultos y de las maniobras psicol gicas que est n tras el comportamiento humano-, tratados, en este caso, con un gran sentido del humor.

The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) 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 Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man". The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. The result, according to philosopher A. C. Grayling, is "one of the most excoriating, compelling and remarkable books ever written; and without question one of the greatest."

The Idiot is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) 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 Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man". The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. The result, according to philosopher A. C. Grayling, is "one of the most excoriating, compelling and remarkable books ever written; and without question one of the greatest."

The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) 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 Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man". The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. The result, according to philosopher A. C. Grayling, is "one of the most excoriating, compelling and remarkable books ever written; and without question one of the greatest."

Besy - odin iz spornykh romanov Dostoevskogo. Odni vidyat v nem prorocheskiy pamflet. Drugie - literaturnyy poligon dlya ispytaniya filosofskikh i sotsial'nykh idey. Tret'i - izoshchrennyy politicheskiy triller, ostroaktual'nyy dlya rossiyskoy zhizni konflikt mezhdu liberalami i patriotami, mezhdu storonnikami tsivilizatsionnogo evropeyskogo puti razvitiya Rossii i adeptami osobogo velikoderzhavnogo puti, otlichnogo i ot zapadnogo i ot vostochnogo. V osnove syuzheta lezhit real'noe sobytie: ekstremisty, chleny zakonspirirovannoy yacheyki likvidirovali svoego kollegu, reshivshego vremenno otoyti ot del. Vprochem, Dostoevskiy otnyud' ne stremitsya izlozhit' fakticheski dostovernuyu kartinu proizoshedshego. Ego tvorenie glubzhe; v chastnoy, edinichnoy, russkoy tragedii on nakhodit obshchemirovoe i obshchechelovecheskoe zlo. Avtor issleduet mirovozzrencheskiy konflikt mezhdu radikalami i konservatorami, patriotami i liberalami. Napryazhennoe detektivnoe deystvie romana, velikolepnye dialogi i oshchushchenie dokumental'nosti sobytiy. Yarkie, produmannye obrazy Stavrogina, Verkhovenskikh, prochikh uchastnikov ekstremistskoy yacheyki. Dostoevskiy izobrazhaet kampaniyu posledovateley silovogo puti dovol'no ottalkivayushche - kak nekuyu stayu... nekromantov, besov - metushchikhsya, otchayavshikhsya sushchestv. No esli Stavrogin i Kirillov - eto khaoticheskie temnye sushchnosti razrushayushchie mir vokrug sebya, tak i ne nashedshie svoego mesta v novoy real'nosti, to Petr Verkhovenskiy - khladnokrovnyy i raschetlivyy negodyay, legko adaptiruyushchiysya i voploshchayushchiy v zhizn' deystvitel'no chudovishchnye zamysly. Roman, bezuslovno, prorocheskiy. Imenno takie lyudi delali revolyutsiyu - v toy ili inoy ee chasti. Ikh istoricheskaya rol' - unichtozhenie tsivilizatsii, a sut' protsessa raskryta Dostoevskim v romane. Takie lyudi ne ischezli, oni, kak i ran'she gotovy razrushat' mir. V Besakh poyavlyaetsya, pozhaluy, rekordnoe dlya odnogo romana chislo personazhey, stavshikh vekhami mirovoy literatury i filosofii. Eto i Nikolay Stavrogin, nad kotorym vposledstvii tak tshchatel'no razmyshlyali Fridrikh Nitsshe i Zigmund Freyd. Aleksey Kirillov, ch'i idei povliyali na tvorchestvo frantsuzskogo pisatelya Al'bera Kamyu i filosofiyu ekzistentsialistov. Petr Verkhovenskiy s tovarishchami po yacheyke, ch'i obrazy pereosmyslyaet ital'yanskiy rezhisser Lukino Viskonti, issleduya novuyu besovshchinu XX veka - fashizm. Chto do mrachnykh zagovorov, podstrekatel'stva i ubiystva - vse eto vosprinimaetsya kak zaveshchanie (kotoromu suzhdeno bylo sbyt'sya) avtora potomkam: nenavist', zloba i agressiya nachinayutsya v besovskiy golove, a durnaya golova - pokoya ne daet i okruzhayushchikh sbivaet s vernogo puti. Tak, postepenno, razroslos' radikal'noe dvizhenie, v itoge perevernuvshee stranu vverkh nogami. Besy razgulyalis' v dushakh i umakh.

Crimen y castigo es una novela de car cter psicol gico escrita por el autor ruso Fi dor Dostoievski. Fue publicada por primera vez en la revista El mensajero ruso, en 1866, en doce partes, y publicada despu s como novela. Junto con Guerra y paz de Le n Tolst i, se considera que la novela es una de las m s influyentes e internacionales de la literatura rusa. Asimismo, los di logos mantenidos entre el protagonista, Rask lnikov, y el inspector de polic a, son considerados por algunos autores, como el prestigioso literato Stefan Zweig, una de las cimas de la literatura universal. La historia narra la vida de Rodi n Rask lnikov, un estudiante en la capital de la Rusia Imperial, San Petersburgo. Este joven se ve obligado a suspender sus estudios por la miseria en la cual se ve envuelto, a pesar de los esfuerzos realizados por su madre Pulqueria y su hermana Dunia para enviarle dinero. Necesitado de financiaci n para pagar sus gastos, hab a recurrido a una anciana prestamista vil y ego sta, en cuya casa empe a algunos objetos de valor. Su hermana Dunia, con la intenci n de ayudarlo, acepta la propuesta de matrimonio de un rico abogado, hecho que hace enfadar a su hermano cuando conoce que se ha aceptado la propuesta sin haber sido consultado. Pero aunque no quiera aceptar esta ayuda, Rodi n tiene aires de grandeza, y en sus delirios cree ser merecedor de un gran futuro, lleg ndose a comparar con Napole n. As que tiene la idea de matar y robar a Aliona Iv novna, la vieja usurera. Esa idea le atormenta durante d as, y crece en su interior como una semilla.