24: Dostoyevsky Bilingual

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The Many Faces of Fyodor Mikhailovich

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is known for huge, intense, philosophical works, but this reputation ignores the great variety of his writing. Literature

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The Petersburg Feuilletons

A journalistic piece from 1847, in which Fyodor Mikhailovich lambasts "the dreamer" omnipresent in St. Petersburg life. Literature

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Letter Before Exile

A letter the author wrote to his brother, immediately before his transport into Siberian exile. Memoir

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Masha is Lying on the Table

A diary entry Dostoyevsky wrote on the death of his first wife, which became an extraordinary and impassioned meditation on death, immortality and human relationships. Memoir

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The Crocodile

Dostoyevsky's hilarious story about a man swallowed by a crocodile, which was also a brilliant satire on political economy and the importation of Western ideas to Russia. Humor

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Letter to Sofya

In this letter to his niece, Dostoyevsky describes the thinking behind Prince Myshkin, the central character in his novel The Idiot. Memoir

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Fathers and Children

A 24-line poem that summarizes Dostoyevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov.

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Vlas

This extract from The Writer's Diary tells the story of a peasant's religious conversion, which Dostoyevsky turns into a discussion of the nature of Russian peasants. Fiction

24: Dostoyevsky Bilingual

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The Many Faces of Fyodor Mikhailovich

The Petersburg Feuilletons

Letter Before Exile

Masha is Lying on the Table

The Crocodile

Letter to Sofya

Fathers and Children

Vlas

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