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Dostoevsky in the 1850s, a few years after "White Nights." "White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, romanized: Belye nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. [1] Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator.
Critics such as Donald Fanger [16] and Roman Katsman, writer of The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon, call these elements "mythopoeic". [17] Suicides are found in several of Dostoyevsky's books. The 1860s–1880s marked a near-epidemic period of suicides in Russia, and many contemporary Russian authors wrote about ...
Vasily Perov's Портрет Ф.М.Достоевского (Portrait of F.M. Dostoevsky), which was an indirect cause for the writing of Bobok. Dostoevsky was prompted to write the story by a journalist's reaction to the first instalments of the Diary of a Writer. At the time, Dostoevsky edited the newspaper-magazine "The Citizen", where the ...
The Book of Tea - Kakuzo Okakura 113. Is this a dagger which I see before me? - William Shakespeare 114. My life had stood a loaded gun - Emily Dickinson 115. Daphnis and Chloe - Longus 116. Matilda - Mary Shelley 117. The Lifted Veil - George Eliot 118. White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 119. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast - Oscar ...
White Nights (Italian: Le notti bianche, French: Nuits blanches) is a 1957 romantic drama film directed by Luchino Visconti, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story of the same name. It was written for the screen by Visconti and Suso Cecchi d'Amico, and stars Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, and Jean Marais. [2]
Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above. For example, novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones wrote, "[Booker] sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto , The Cherry Orchard , Wagner , Proust , Joyce , Kafka and Lawrence —the list goes on—while ...
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
Dostoevsky observed that "the whole of Russia is talking about my Poor Folk". [33] As soon as he read the manuscript for Poor Folk, Belinsky named it Russia's first "social novel". [34] Alexander Herzen praised the book in his essay "About the Progress of Revolutionary Ideas in Russia", noting the book's "socialistic tendencies and animations ...