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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife’s lover. Dostoevsky’s dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters, including a government official who shows up uninvited at an underling’s wedding to prove his humanity; a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wife’s suicide; and a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead.
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky—a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky—a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.
349 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1890
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September 5, 2000 by Bantam Classics
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Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him of the greatest of world literature and consider multiple highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He also well acts as a philosopher and theologian.
(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him of the greatest of world literature and consider multiple highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He also well acts as a philosopher and theologian.
(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)
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Typically, story collections can be tricky to rate because the quality can vary from piece to piece. This one is less difficult: of the novella and its accompanying 4 stories, I enjoyed exactly 0 of them. There were moments of the main tale that gave me hope, but then it would return to its muddled storytelling and characterization. I think, given the revelations at its conclusion, that it would benefit from a reread, but I just didn't like it enough to want to commit to that. The other tales ran the gamut from exceedingly dull to flat out bad. It was still very recognizably Dostoevsky (or at least a convincing cover band), which worries me. Did I only love those other novels because I was a moody teen/ 20-something or was this collection just weak compared to the rest of his cannon?
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The Russians continue to deliver. Crime and Punishment was a searing look into the uniquely human emotion of guilt. In this set of short novellas, Dostoevksy continues to search, extract and then dissect emotions further. Including shades of embarrassment, haughtiness, guilt (again) and revenge. It can all get quite raw and heavy, at places, but there are stories here I won't forget in a long while
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Contains the stories:
A Nasty Anecdote -
The Eternal Husband -
Bobok -
The Meek One - 4/5 - a husband explains the decaying marriage that led his young wife to suicide
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man -
A Nasty Anecdote -
The Eternal Husband -
Bobok -
The Meek One - 4/5 - a husband explains the decaying marriage that led his young wife to suicide
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man -
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This is a definitive collection of Dostoevsky's shorter works. While there are only five stories contained here, the quality is consistently very high and includes some of his best works of short fiction. I might consider Bobok to be my favorite Dostoevsky short story. The centerpiece novella, The Eternal Husband, is perhaps the least compelling work on display, but is still very good. The Eternal Husband reads at a breakneck pace, uncommon for Dostoevsky, and feels like a play in prose form. While I struggle to attribute many greater themes to it, it is a page-turner. The other three stories are all classics as well.
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pretty much all good. also mostly all lesser, derivative versions of the big novels, but lesser and derivative versions of those are better than most novels. the titular novel and dream of a ridiculous man were particularly good!
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A Nasty Anecdote - it funny
The Eternal Husband - that's some good shit right there
Bobok - Ehhhhhhhh
The Meek One - it ok
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - me likey
The Eternal Husband - that's some good shit right there
Bobok - Ehhhhhhhh
The Meek One - it ok
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - me likey
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As is his style, Dostoevsky’s short stories range from humorous (Bobok) to grim realities of life (The Meek One).
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