Poor folk and other stories / Fyodor Dostoyevsky; translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff.
By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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BookPlace of publication: LondonPublisher: Penguin Books LtdDate of publication: 1988Description: 271 p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 978-0-140-44505-3.Subject(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- 1821-1881 | Manners and customs -- Russia -- FictionDDC classification: 891.733 D7423 1988
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Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius.
It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and a young girl who lives opposite him. Of the other stories in this volume The Landlady portrays a dreamer hero, housed in dreams of art until he is forced to move from his lodgings; and Polzunkov is a sketch of a "voluntary buffoon." For Mr.Prokharchin Dostoyevsky lifted a plot from a stranger-than-fiction newspaper story (about a poor man's hidden hoard's) and transformed it into inspired and desolate comedy.
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