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Proveniente de un establecimiento de salud en Suiza donde un doctor le ha tratado una enfermedad no concretada, el joven príncipe Myshkin (persona esencialmente buena y sin ninguna malicia) regresa a Rusia sin un rublo con el fin de hallar cobijo o ayuda en algunos parientes lejanos. Su aparicion e integracion en la sociedad de San Petersburgo llevara, precisamente en razon de su caracter, a que todo aquel que entable relacion con el, desnudado por su mirada ingenua, sus mansas palabras y sus actos inocentes, experimente un trastorno inesperado en su vida o en sus sentimientos.

Unanimemente considerata tra le opere più alte della letteratura russa e di tutto l'Ottocento europeo, "I fratelli Karamazov" è l'ultima fatica di Dostoevskij. Pubblicato in parte, tra il 1879 e il 1880, sul "Messaggero Russo", vide la luce nella sua forma integrale nel 1880. Al centro della narrazione le vicende della famiglia Karamazov, padre e quattro figli, di cui uno illegittimo e tre nati da madri diverse, tutte precocemente scomparse. Aleksej, Dmitrij, Ivan e Smerdjakov si muovono circondati da un teatro di personaggi altrettanto cruciali e determinanti, non solo ai fini della narrazione ma anche ai fini del perfetto equilibrio su cui l'architettura del romanzo è costruita. È la storia di un parricidio, è la storia di una schiera di anime alla ricerca della verita e di una salvezza possibile, tutta spirituale, che l'autore cuce addosso al suo Aleksej, illuminandolo sin dalle primissime pagine di una luce forte e ostinata, che è propria solo degli "eroi". Introduzione di Eraldo Affinati.

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

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.

Introducing the first in a long line of undergroundA" characters, Poor People, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction, is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels. Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him.

Fiódor DostoievskiEste foi o último grande romance de Dostoiévski (1879-1880), terminado pouco tempo antes da sua morte, em São Petersburgo (1881). Faz parte das sua obras maiores, juntamente com Cri

Fyodor DostoevskyInto a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he. Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment of Russia's struggling to emulate contemporary Europe and sinking under the weight of Western materialism. This new translation by Alan Myers is meticulously faithful to the original and has a critical introduction by W. J. Leatherbarrow.

Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and psychological, it is pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, yet in the life of its gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments of wild humour. Crime and Punishment was marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering.

'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart.' 'The Double' (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double. Is 'Mr Golyadkinjunior' really a double or simply a fearful side of his own nature? This uncertainty is what gives urgency and horror to a tale which may be read as a classic study of human breakdown.

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 Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the worlds great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.

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.

Una obra maestra de la historia de la literatura rusaLa historia de un doble crimen cometido por un joven y su subsecuente lucha interna con sus emociones y sus delirios. Los personajes no se parecen a nosotros, y no obstante nadie nos habla mas adentro que ellos, nadie se parece mas a nuestra ultima verdad, del prologo de Carlos Pujol.