The Village Of Stepanchikovo

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Ignat Avsey
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141965383

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The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Ignat Avsey Pdf

Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with Yegor’s mother and now holds the entire household under his thumb. Watching the absurd theatrics of this domestic tyrant over forty-eight explosive hours, Sergey grows increasingly furious - until at last, he feels compelled to act. A compelling comic exploration of petty tyranny, The Village of Stepanchikovo reveals a delight in life’s wild absurdities that rivals even Gogol’s. It also offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of the characters and situations of many of Dostoyevsky’s great later novels, including The Idiot, Devils and The Brothers Karamazov.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726501742

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The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Wild carriage chases, moonlight trysts, stupidity, vanity and elopements. This manic comedy seems to have it all... Farcical in its entirety, 'The Village of Stepanchikovo' follows the ordinary, yet comical and trite comings and goings of the village people. A tale of satirical characters, the novel excels in its portrayal of superficial social qualities and the effects on people’s inner and outer lives. Funny, pseudo-ambitious, and quasi-intellectual, 'The Village of Stepanchikovo' is a must-read gem in Dostoevsky’s comedy menagerie. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a famous Russian writer of novels, short stories, and essays. A connoisseur of the troubled human psyche and the relationships between the individuals, Dostoevsky’s oeuvre covers a large area of subjects: politics, religion, social issues, philosophy, and the uncharted realms of the psychological. There have been at least 30 film and TV adaptations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1866 novel 'Crime and Punishment' with probably the most popular being the British BBC TV series starring John Simm as Raskolnikov and Ian McDiarmid as Porfiry Petrovich. 'The Idiot' has also been adapted for films and TV, as has 'Demons' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0801420512

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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Set on a remote country estate, the story concerns a household completely under the sway of the despotic charlatan and humbug Foma Fomich Opiskin. The owner of the estate, the retired Colonel Rostanev, is a meek, kind-hearted giant of a man, cruelly dominated by Opiskin. With deftly controlled suspense and brilliant comic interludes, the novel builds up to a confrontation between these two characters.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787364178

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Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847499080

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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author's release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and tone, and waspish in its description of the villainous Opiskin, it is a sustained exercise in caricatural cruelty and a comedic tour de force. The young Sergei is summoned from St Petersburg by his uncle, the retired colonel Yegor Rostanev, to the remote country estate of Stepanchikovo. Rostanev's household, populated by a medley of remarkable characters, is dominated by the figure of Foma Opiskin, a devious, manipulative hanger-on who has everyone in thrall and plots to marry the colonel to the woman of his choice, Tatyana Ivanova. When Opiskin finds that his plans are being thwarted, a confrontation with Rostanev ensues, and all hell is let loose.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1404465839

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Village of Stepanchikovo (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Author : Joe E. Barnhart
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0761830987

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Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Talent by Joe E. Barnhart Pdf

This book illuminates the connectedness of Dostoevsky's literary art with his philosophical and psychological brilliance. Two Fyodor Dostoevsky conferences originating at the University of North Texas set the stage for this volume. Scholars contributed original papers focusing on how Dostoevsky's literary art and philosophical insights enrich one another. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote and thought polyphonically. His polyphonic method is both his special literary technique and his distinctive way of probing theological, social, and philosophical depths. As Bakhtin and Terras suggest, all Dostoevsky's major literary inventions--from the underground man to the vitriolic Grushenka--are products of his ability to listen profoundly to his own characters. Like the genius author-redactor of 1 and 2 Samuel, he reports the heights and depths of human emotion and behavior, whether exploring the anatomy of dysfunctional families, making the heart soar with Zosima's vision of forgiveness, or giving Ivan Karamazov full rein to challenge theism. Dostoevsky's characters transform themselves into irregular verbs whose fierce independence emerges only because of their desperate and inescapable interdependence. His major characters are text, subtext, and context for each other. They play inside each other's head and answer in one way or another.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714545776

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Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcilA-able relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful and original presence in his own right.This new translation catches the verve and tumult of the original, which - in concept and execution - affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714545837

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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan and Vienna.His record of the trip, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions - first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya, the periodical he edited - is the chrysalis out of which many elements of his later masterpieces developed.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714545790

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Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady - the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna - as he struggles to find his place in society and "e;become a Rothschild"e; against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken up by the new ideological currents of socialism and nihilism.Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern society, The Adolescent - here presented in a brand-new translation by Dora O'Brien - shows Dostoevsky at his finest as a social commentator and observer of the workings of a young man's mind.

Author : N. S. Trubetzkoy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816617937

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Writings on Literature by N. S. Trubetzkoy Pdf

Abramson (Hebrew literature, U. of Oxford) presents a detailed critical description and thematic analysis of Amichai's work, with reference to the historical background from which it has emerged. The problems of an emerging national culture are seen subjectively through the eyes of one of its most sensitive and perceptive literary observers. Studies in literary theory and history by the influential Russian linguist (1890-1938), edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Liberman. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004311121

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Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life by Anonim Pdf

This book offers a versatile approach to the enigmatic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism of the last two hundred years and beyond. The 23 chapters look at diverse artistic and cultural forms, including Russian philosophy, theology, literature, music and visual arts.

Author : Yuri Tynianov
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644692738

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Permanent Evolution by Yuri Tynianov Pdf

Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system within—and in constant interaction with—other cultural and social systems. His essays on Russian literary classics, like Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin and works by Dostoevsky and Gogol, as well as on the emerging art form of filmmaking, provide insight into the ways art and literature evolve and adapt new forms of expression. Although Tynianov was first a scholar of Russian literature, his ideas transcend the boundaries of any one genre or national tradition. Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov’s seminal articles on literary theory and film, including several articles never before translated into English.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847492470

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Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. As he succumbs to the temptations of the roulette table, he finds himself engaged in a battle of wills with Polina, the woman he unrequitedly loves.With an unforgettable cast of fellow gamblers and figures from European high society, this darkly comic novel of greed and self-destruction reveals Dostoevsky at his satirical and psychological best.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847493910

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Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.Alma Classics is committed to making available a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics.