Alma Books Winter Notes On Summer Impressions Достоевский Федор Михайлович

Written in the form of a diary, The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is condemned to ten years hard labour for killing his wife in a fi t of rage. Initially the target of the other inmates malice, he gradually settles in and becomes an avid observer of the new world around him - watching his fellow prisoners being brutally and cruelly punished by the guards, listening to their past stories of blood and murder and learning that even convicts are capable of acts of pure generosity, as when they sacrifice their own meal to feed a stray dog that wanders around the camp. Based on Dostoevsky's own autobiographical experiences during a four year internment in a prison colony in Siberia, this genre-defying novel is not only an unflinching expose of the conditions of Russian prisoners during the Tsarist period, but also a call to see the human side in criminals and rediscover the values of forgiveness and brotherly love

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. His impressions on what he saw, "Winter Notes On Summer Impressions", were first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya (Time), the periodical he edited

Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation is the only translation that counts. They are the only translators who succeed in making Dostoevsky accessible to a 21st century audience, thanks to their ruthless attention to detail at the expense of alterations which can dilute Dostoevsky's unique and flowing style of writing. The great appeal this book retains even today is in part due to Pevear and Volokhonsky, as well as to Dostoevsky himself. Furthermore, Richard Pevear's substantial introduction is essential reading. It explains the purpose of the book and the historical significance of its ideas. Dostoevsky was writing at a time when Russia had reason to be optimistic, but the warning signs in his fiction perhaps leave us clues as to why Russia still has social problems today - and why, less than 40 years after Dostoevsky's death, Russia embraced Communism and destroyed the society in which Dostoevsky had lived

Достоевский Фёдор Михайлович (1821-1881) - один из величайших писателей золотого века русской литературы. В своих произведениях автор задаёт вечные вопросы бытия. Ответы на них поможет найти криминальный роман "Преступление и наказание". Каково это - убить? Нарушить нравственный закон ради идеи: "Вошь ли я, как все, или человек? Смогу ли переступить или не смогу? Тварь ли я дрожащая или право имею?". Нищий студент Родион Раскольников ставит себя перед страшным выбором, за которым - свобода и власть или путь к помешательству

«Преступление и наказание» – величайший роман в истории русской и мировой литературы – представляет собой не просто «психологический отчет одного преступления», как первоначально задумывал его Федор Михайлович Достоевский. Это глубокое исследование тайн человеческой природы, произведение, в котором автор ставит вечные вопросы: о преступлении и наказании, душевной жестокости и сострадании, смерти и воскрешении души. «Его герои прокладывают пути нового мира; роман Достоевского – миф о новом человеке и его рождении из лона русской души» (С. Цвейг)

"Достоевский постоянно совершенствовался. Вряд ли он был гением типа Моцарта или Шуберта, скорее его можно сравнить с Бетховеном в том, что он все время с боем пробивался сквозь тернии к звездам, отталкиваясь от того, что он уже достиг, чтобы в итоге создать произведение, обожествляемое всеми" (Харуки Мураками)

As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder and incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine and kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission, the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination • Devils is at once a compelling political statement and a study of atheism and its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Seen as Dostoevsky's most powerful indictment of man's propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is presented here in Roger Cockrell's masterful new translation

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

The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition - in a shopping arcade - of a crocodile owned by a German, when Ivan is suddenly swallowed alive by the animal. Unsuccessful in his attempts to be freed from his prison, due to the German's concern for his crocodile and excessive desire for compensation, the civil servant gradually comes to appreciate his new environment, while his wife begins to enjoy her new-found freedom. Inspired by Gogol's surreal tales, Dostoevsky's hilarious story has been interpreted by some as a vitriolic piece of social criticism and a veiled attack on the revolutionary philosopher Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Гениальность и безумие… так ли далеки друг от друга эти понятия, как кажется? И где проходит грань, отделяющая первое от второго? В одном из самых главных своих романов "Идиот" Федор Достоевский пытается дать ответы на эти вопросы, касаясь запретных тем и ломая нравственные табу

Гениальность и безумие… так ли далеки друг от друга эти понятия, как кажется? И где проходит грань, отделяющая первое от второго? В одном из самых главных своих романов «Идиот» Федор Достоевский пытается дать ответы на эти вопросы, касаясь запретных тем и ломая нравственные табу

В книге представлена повесть "Белые ночи" великого русского писателя XIX века Ф.М. Достоевского. Это история о том, как одинокий молодой человек познакомился с доброй, скромной девушкой и влюбился в нее. Он мечтает о счастье, которое казалось, уже так близко. Но происходит невероятное… Текст повести адаптирован (В2), сопровождается комментарием, заданиями на понимание прочитанного и на развитие речи. В книге приводятся наиболее интересные факты из жизни Ф.М. Достоевского