Uncle's Dream and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ISBN 10

0140445188

ISBN 13

9780140445183

Tags

Classics, Russian, Anthologies, Short Stories, Literary

Description

Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmopshere of his earlier stories; instead "Uncle's Dreams" is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and farce in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals.Dostoyevsky's inspiration for "The Meek Girl" came from a newspaper report on the suicide of a seamstress who plunged from a garret window, holding a religious icon in her hands. According to the critic John Jones, it is "one of the most powerful studies of despair in world literature, a banging on closed doors imagined with abosolute fearlessness." - from Amzon

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