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Tr.: Constance Garnett

This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication.Poor FolkThe DoubleNotes From The UndergroundCrime and PunishmentThe GamblerThe IdiotThe Possessed (The Devils)A Raw YouthThe Dream of a Ridiculous ManThe Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevski - The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting.

Raskólnikov, un estudiante que vive en San Petersburgo, elabora una filosofía de vida radical (raskolnik significa 'cismático' en ruso) que le lleva a una conclusión: asesinar a una vieja usurera para que el y su familia solucionen sus problemas economicos no solo no es reprobable, sino que es moralmente recomendable, porque asi el mundo se convertira en un lugar mejor. Sin embargo, pronto descubrira que la distancia existente entre plantear un proyecto y culminarlo es abismal, y las consecuencias que el acto puede conllevar son imprevisibles tanto en el mundo que le rodea como en el interior de su alma.

A new translation of one of the most brilliant achievements of Russian literature's Golden Age A new translation of one of the most brilliant achievements of Russian literature's Golden Age Only beauty can save the world, proclaims the hero of The Idiot, perhaps Dostoevskys most personal and intense work of fiction. But in the brutally materialistic world of late 19th-century Petersburg, infested with greed and vulgarity, Prince Myshkins naive beliefs can only be the subject of mockery and ultimately lead to failure and tragedy. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters that covers the entire gamut of Russian societyfrom the arrogant rich merchants son Rogozhin and the beautiful but wanton Nastasya Filippovna to the student Kirillov, who aspires to become the man-God by killing himselfDostoevskys masterpiece, brilliantly captured in this new translation, is a book that leaves a permanent mark on its readers minds.

This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication.Poor FolkThe DoubleNotes From The UndergroundCrime and PunishmentThe GamblerThe IdiotThe Possessed (The Devils)A Raw YouthThe Dream of a Ridiculous ManThe Brothers Karamazov

Los cuentos de Fiódor M. Dostoievski (Moscú, 1821-San Petersburgo, 1881) intentan abarcar todo el período de su actividad como escritor, desde sus comienzos literarios en 1845 hasta 1877, año en que comienza a escribir Los hermanos Karamazov. En estos cuentos, no por breves menos geniales que sus novelas, aparecen temas recurrentes en toda su obra: los estafadores estafados en la Novela en nueve cartas, el delirio de un avaro en El señor Projarchin, o la generosidad del pueblo ruso en El ladron honrado. Tambien en estos relatos su vena satirica y humoristica cobra mas fuerza. La mujer ajena y el marido debajo de la cama, Bobok o El cocodrilo son buen ejemplo de ello. Las historias que se incluyen en este volumen ofrecen al lector una vision amplia de la compleja personalidad artistica de este gran escritor ruso, que siempre considero su deber rehabilitar al individuo destruido, aplastado por el injusto yugo de las circunstancias, del estancamiento secular y de los prejuicios sociales.

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"The Russian nation is a new and wonderful phenomenon in the history of mankind. The character of the people differs to such a degree from that of the other Europeans that their neighbours find it impossible to diagnose them." This affirmation by Dostoyevsky, the prophetic journalist, offers a key to the treatment in his novels of the troubles and aspirations of his race. He wrote with a sacramental fervour whether he was writing as a personal agent or an impersonal, novelist or journalist. Hence his rage with the calmer men, more gracious interpreters of the modern Sclav, who like Ivan Tourguenieff were able to see Russia on a line with the western nations, or to consider her maternal throes from the disengaged, safe retreat of an arm-chair exile in Paris. Not so was lame Russe to be given her new literature in the eyes of M. Dostoieffsky, strained with watching, often red with tears and anger.Those other nations, he saidproudly looking for the symptoms of the world-intelligence in his ownthose other nations of Europe may maintain that they have at heart a common aim and a common ideal. In fact they are divided among themselves by a thousand interests, territorial or other. Each pulls his own way with ever-growing determination. It would seem that every individual nation aspires to the discovery of the universal ideal for humanity, and is bent on attaining that ideal by force of its own unaided strength. Hence, he argued, each European nation is an enemy to its own welfare and that of the world in general.

En un breve prefacio a estas Memorias del subsuelo, su autor nos advierte que, si bien son imaginarias, su protagonista reúne de manera inevitable una serie de rasgos propios de su época: «… individu

O último grande romance de Dostoiévski (1879-1880), terminado pouco antes da sua morte, prova, juntamente com as obras «Crime e Castigo» (1866), «O Idiota» (1868) e «Os Possessos» (1871-72), que a fa