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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.

Testimonio de un amor saboteado por una conciencia mezquina, La mansa, escrita en el último periodo creativo de Dostoievski, da cuenta de la trágica relación que nace entre el narrador –el prestamist

'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

Ensayo introductorio de Augusto Vidal. Traducciones de Lidia Kúper y Luis Abollado. Marcado por el socialismo cristiano, el primer ciclo de la obra dostoyevskiana lo forman los títulos que publicó antes de ser condenado en 1849. Se incluyen aqui trece novelas y relatos: de Pobres gentes, El doble (ambas de 1846) o Noches blancas (1848) -editadas antes de ser condenado- a El pequeño heroe, escrito ya en la carcel, y Humillados y ofendidos.Ensayo introductorio de Augusto Vidal. Traducciones de Lidia Kúper y Luis Abollado. Marcado por el socialismo cristiano, el primer ciclo de la obra dostoyevskiana lo forman los títulos que publicó antes de ser condenado en 1849. Se incluyen aqui trece novelas y relatos: de Pobres gentes, El doble (ambas de 1846) o Noches blancas (1848) -editadas antes de ser condenado- a El pequeño heroe, escrito ya en la carcel, y Humillados y ofendidos.

Classic / British English (Available May 2008) Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely, he develops a plan to murder a greedy old moneylender. Surely the murder of one worthless old woman would be excused, even approved of, if it made possible a thousand good deeds? But this crime is just the beginning of the story...

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

The 26-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of Saint Petersburg for his trusting nature and naiveté, he finds himself at the center of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a virtuous and pretty young girl, both of whom win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkins very goodness precipitates disaster, leaving the impression that, in a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, a sanatorium may be the only place for a saint.

The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make such a union come about, she must contend with rival matchmakers and Zina's existing suitors.

Dostoyevski supo dar voz a la humillación y la miseria moral. Sus personajes, mas allá de toda distinción de clase, se mueven en el limite de la experiencia humana. Pueden ser arrastrados por el vicio o bien impulsados por una suerte de iluminacion espiritual, pero desde cualquiera de las dos posiciones lo que aparece es la soledad, el desconcierto y la desesperada lucha que supone buscar un sentido a la existencia. Dostoyevski ahonda en la tension de los contrarios que pueblan cada personalidad, trazando unos personajes que acaban convirtiendose en paradigmas metafisicos. En los cuatro relatos que forman este libro queda condensado el universo creativo de Dostoyesvki . En ellos se plasma la irreversibilidad del destino del hombre, mientras que las voces individuales de los protagonistas parecen invocar, con dolorosa solidaridad, una liberacion colectiva de esa gran masa humana sometida al dolor y a la incomprension.