Bücher von Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

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Il Grande Inquisitore, è un capitolo del romanzo "I Fratelli Karamazov".Il romanzo fu completato dallo scrittore nel 1880, pochi mesi prima di morire, e questo capitolo è dipinto a tinte forti dallo stile narrativo policentrico di Fëdor Dostoevskij; uno stile che altre volte è emerso dai suoi lavori, in cui il risultato non è una narrazione a protagonista unico ma piuttosto un'opera che nella sua interezza esprime uno scontro tra pensieri, formulati sempre nella totalità delle proprie sfumature.Questa volta è Ivan Karamazov (arguto, ribelle, orgoglioso) che narra a suo fratello Alë¿a (spirituale, sensibile, religioso) una storia fantastica: nel XVI secolo Gesù ritorna tra gli uomini, a Siviglia, alla presenza del cardinale inquisitore che ha appena fatto bruciare un centinaio di anime eretiche. Qui l'autore si concentra su fede e ateismo (libertà o schiavitù?), e mostrando tutta la propria capacità filosofica, esprime il conflitto che anche nella vita reale lui stesso conduceva tra la gioia di vivere e la sofferta e incessante ricerca della verità.

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

"Oh, don't be afraid, my dear!" Ivan Matveitch called after us, gallantly displaying his manly courage to his wife. "This drowsy denison of the realms of the Pharaohs will do us no harm." And he remained by the tank. What is more, he took his glove and began tickling the crocodile's nose with it, wishing, as he said afterwards, to induce him to snort.Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky is best known for his exploration of the human dark side of the psyche, but this collection shows he is equally adept at sarcastic and absurdist commentary.

Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either; Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day -- Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in hindsight, he was surely was correct.

The Insulted and Injured is that tale of a love quadrangle -- an improbably unpossessive and uninvidious love quadrangle, at that -- told by a young novelist not too unlike Dostoevsky himself. (A young author who has just published a novel so much like Dostoevsky's Poor Folk, in fact, that we find ourselves tempted to wonder over the author's private life. But we'll refrain.) Vanya (the narrator and fictional author) has a crush on Natasha, who has left her family to live with her new lover, Alyosha. Alyosha is a sweetheart, but he's also a little dim; he's the son of Prince Valkovsky, a Machiavellian character who's the villain of the tale. Prince Valkovsky hopes to gain wealth and stature by marrying Alyosha off to an heiress -- Katya. The Prince's machinations make him one of the most memorable "predatory types" in the Dostoevsky ouvre.

CONTENTSAn Honest ThiefUncle's DreamA Novel in Nine LettersAn Unpleasant PredicamentAnother Man's WifeThe Heavenly Christmas TreeThe Peasant MareyThe CrocodileBobokThe Dream of a Ridiculous Man