Uncle's Dream
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Russian, Classics, Literary
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoevsky | ISBN: | 1230000202164 |
| Publisher: | Starbooks Classics Publishing | Publication: | December 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| ISBN: | 1230000202164 |
| Publisher: | Starbooks Classics Publishing |
| Publication: | December 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
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."
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."
