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Poor Folk explores poverty and the relationship between the poor and the rich, common themes of literary naturalism. Largely influenced by Nikolai Gogol 's The Overcoat , Alexander Pushkin 's The Stationmaster and Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse d’Argenteuil , [ 20 ] it is an epistolary novel composed of letters ...
Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen and others praised Poor Folk ' s depiction of poverty, and Belinsky called it Russia's "first social novel". [4] This success did not continue with his second novel, The Double, and other short stories published mainly in left-wing magazines.
The short stories Dostoyevsky wrote during the period before his imprisonment explore similar themes to Poor Folk and The Double. [30] " White Nights " "features rich nature and music imagery, gentle irony, usually directed at the first-person narrator himself, and a warm pathos that is always ready to turn into self-parody".
"The Poor People" is a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1854, translated into Russian by Lidia Veselitskaya, [1] and then rewritten or retold by Leo Tolstoy in 1908. It is the story of a woman, the protagonist ("Zhanna", "Jeanne" or "Jeanna", depending on the translator), her husband, their five children, and how some romantic feelings survive amidst their struggle in poverty. [2]
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Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.
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