White Nights/A Gentle Creature/The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Book Overview

In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from "living life." A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation as well as moral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199555087
• ISBN13: 9780199555086
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.6"