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Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife’s suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal. (Verlagstext)

 

Table of contents:

 

Introduction ... vii

Select Bibliography ... xxx

 

Mr Prohartchin ... 1

The Landlady ... 29

A Novel in Nine Letters ... 95

Another Man's Wife, or the Husband Under the Bed ... 107

A Faint Heart ... 145

Polzunkov ... 183

An Honest Thief ... 197

A Christmas Tree and a Wedding ... 213

White Nights ... 221

A Little Hero ... 265

Uncle's Dream ... 295

An Unpleasant Predicament ... 409

Notes from Underground ... 455

The Crocodile ... 547

Bobok ... 579

The Heavenly Christmas Tree ... 595

A Gentle Spirit ... 599

The Peasant Marey ... 637

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man ... 643

 

Abbreviated Table of Civil, Court and Military Ranks ... 661

Notes ... 662