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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821--1881), the brilliant Russian novelist whose psychological delvings into the human soul profoundly influenced the twentieth-century novel, wrote a prolific amount of shorter works that are masterpieces in their own right. His novella The Eternal Husband... Read Full Overview

The Eternal Husband, one of Dostoevsky's lesser-known novels, is thought by many critics to be among his most powerful and perfect works. Pavel Pavlovitch is the "eternal husband," which Velchaninov, his wife's former lover, defines as a buffoon doomed to be nothing more than... Read Full Overview

El eterno marido es considerada una de las obras m s logradas de Dostoievski en cuanto a estructura y composici n. La novela gira en torno al conflicto que surge del tri ngulo marido-esposa-amante. El autor, sin embargo, le da un enfoque particular. En efecto, situando a la mujer... Read Full Overview

Summer had come, and Velchaninoff, contrary to his expectations, was still in St. Petersburg. His trip to the south of Russia had fallen through, and there seemed no end to the business which had detained him.

During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose late wife, Natalya, was his... Read Full Overview

FROM THE INTRODUCTION by Joshua Hren In three months we will have been abroad two years. In my opinion it's worse than being exiled in Siberia -Dostoevsky to S.A. Ivanova, Florence, 1869Dostoevsky wrote The Eternal Husband during the same period he began The Life of a Great Sinner... Read Full Overview

In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and... Read Full Overview

The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings. This remarkably edgy and suspenseful tale shows that, despite being better known for his voluminous and sprawling novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky was a master of the more tightly-focused form of the novella. The Eternal... Read Full Overview

F. M. Dostoevsky is one of the most famous writers of the XIX century. And today his works are read with the same unflagging interest, and that during his lifetime. Novel "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", "Demons", "The Brothers Karamazov" is known throughout the world.

Imaginez Don Juan plein de remords et hant par un mari tromp . Accabl de soucis d'argent, n'ayant le go t rien, Veltchaninov est poursuivi par un homme en deuil. Troussotzky a perdu sa femme. Toute faute, pour Dosto evski, doit tre expi e, le p ch engendre la maladie et... Read Full Overview

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social,... Read Full Overview

Veltchaninov, tout occup une affaire juridique, rep re pourtant un homme trange, et qu'il ne cesse de croiser. Jusqu' ce que l'homme vienne frapper sa porte, en pleine nuit, et que Veltchaninov reconnaisse celui qui, neuf ans auparavant, tait le mari de sa ma tresse... Read Full Overview