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Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1606800809
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Notes from the Underground written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book White Nights and Other Stories written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Russian fiction master Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for epic, sprawling novels that detail psychological and philosophical problems in minute detail, his more concise work is also remarkable in its scope and depth. This collection of stories will please fans of classic Russian literature and Dostoyevsky buffs who are interested in sampling the author's forays into another format.
Author : Bruce K. Ward
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554588162
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Dostoyevsky’s Critique of the West written by Bruce K. Ward and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not much attention has been given to Dostoyevsky's concern with the crisis of the modern West, although allusions to almost every aspect of Western civilization—including the political, economic, and social dimensions—are present in his literary works and abound in his secondary writings. This book points the way to a better understanding of the apparent contradiction between Dostoyevsky's concern with the highest reaches of human spirituality and at the same time with the most detailed developments in domestic and international politics. Ward argues that the apparent polarization of "religious" thought and "political" analysis of the West are held together for Dostoyevsky in his search for the best human order. He demonstrates not only that Dostoyevsky's observations about the West constitute a coherent critique intimately related to the deepest aspects of his though, but also that these can be rendered more systematic and explicit. What results is an incisve account of both the religious and the political thought of Dostoyevsky, which helps clarify what Dostoyevsky, which helps clarify what Dostoyevsky can teach us about the modern situation of the Western world and about the problem of human order in general, for, as the author states, "it was Dostoyevsky's great virtue as a thinker always to see the pressing issues of his particular time and place in the light of the 'everlasting problems.'"
Author : Malcolm V. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521248906
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book New Essays on Dostoyevsky written by Malcolm V. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-03-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises essays to mark the centenary of Dostoyevsky's death in 1881. The first part considers specific works and the second part ranges more widely over aspects of the great novelist's work, including essays on Dostoyevsky as philosopher, on his religious thought and on formalist and structuralist approaches to his work.
Author : Edward Craig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415073103
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Index written by Edward Craig and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a full index of all the topics covered in the first nine volumes of the set.
Author : John A. McCarthy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004700188
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Confronting / Defining the Self written by John A. McCarthy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early 20th-century literary critics Joseph Collins, Hermann Hesse, and Percy Lubbock concluded that the pages of a book present a succession of moments that the reader visualizes and reinterprets. They feared that few would actually commit themselves to memory, and that most were likely to soon disappear. As you turn these pages, you will (re)discover the value of the literary canon through the Self. My objective is to examine how the Self is formed, lost, and regained through creative strategies that confront and define its shapes and distortions on nearly every page of a canonical work. You can consider Confronting / Defining the Self: Formation and Dissolution of the ‘I’ from La Fayette to Grass as offering an apology for the study of literature and the humanities in an era when technology and commerce dominate our consciousness, drive our daily expectations, and shape our career goals.
Author : Nelson Algren
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 160980273X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Nonconformity written by Nelson Algren and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers. "You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery." Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: "Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder." And it is about the trouble writers ask for when they try to describe America: "Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards . . . [where there] are still . . . defeats in which everything is lost [and] victories that fall close enough to the heart to afford living hope." In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer's relation to society, drawing examples from Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Twain, and Fitzgerald, as well as utility infielder Leo Durocher and legendary barkeep Martin Dooley. He shares his deepest beliefs about the state of literature and its role in society, along the way painting a chilling portrait of the early 1950s, Joe McCarthy's heyday, when many American writers were blacklisted and ruined for saying similar things to what Algren is saying here.
Author : William Riggan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Pícaros, Madmen, Naïfs, and Clowns written by William Riggan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (339 download)
Download or read book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Illustrated written by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story opens with the narrator wandering the streets of St. Peters burg. He is contemplating the ridiculousness of his own life, and his recent realisation that nothing matters to him any more. It is this revelation that leads him to the idea of suicide. He reveals that, some months before, he had bought a revolver with the intent of shooting himself in the head.Despite a dismal night, the narrator looks up to the sky and views a solitary star. Shortly after seeing the star, a little girl comes running towards him. The narrator surmises that something is wrong with the girl's mother. He shakes the girl away and continues on to his apartment.Once in his apartment, he sinks into a chair and places the gun on a table next to him. He hesitates to shoot himself because of a nagging feeling of guilt that has plagued him ever since he shunned the girl. The narrator grapples with internal questions for a few hours before falling asleep in the chair.He descends into a vivid dream. In the dream, he shoots himself in the heart. He dies but is still aware of his surroundings. He gathers that there is a funeral and that it is he who is being buried. After an indeterminate amount of time in his cold grave, water begins to drip down onto his eyelids.
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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595160654
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Man is a Mystery. It Must Be Unraveled... written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Let me tell you, dear heart, it can happen that you go through life without knowing under your very nose there is a book in which your life is described in the minutest detail. What you have never even noticed before, you gradually remember, as you start reading such a book, and find out and discover... some books you read and read and you can’t make head or tail of them, however much you try. It is so damn clever that you can’t understand a word of it... But you read a book like that and feel as though you had written it yourself, just as though – how shall I put it? – as though you had taken possession of your own heart – whatever it might be – had turned it inside out for people to see, and described it all in detail – that’s how it is! And how simple it is, good Lord! Why, I could have written it myself! Why, indeed, shouldn’t I have written it myself!” from Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191593699
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Gentle Creature and Other Stories written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky's view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2837 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book In Search of Lost Time - The Complete Seven-Book Series written by Marcel Proust and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 2837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Lost Time is a series of seven highly acclaimed novels which inspired modern writers with its artistic craft and philosophical insight regarding memory and time. It is often suggested that perhaps Joyce's Ulysses was in some way inspired by this French tour de force. These bestselling novels recount the experiences of an unnamed narrator while he is growing up, learning about art, participating in society, and falling in love. Swann's Way: The young protagonist dreads waking up at night and not having his mother's good-night kiss... Within a Budding Grove beautifully examines the complex adolescent relationships. The Guermantes Way: The adult protagonist steps into the dazzling Parisian society of 19th century along with his obsession for Mme. de Guermantes. Cities of Plain: No matter how hard he tries to ignore or stay indifferent to closeted homosexual relationships around him, these and his own sexual desires become intricate part of his memories. The Captive dwells into the nature of relationships when couples fall out of love and yet don't have courage to break free. The Sweet Cheat Gone: People who leave rarely come back... Time Regained: After the WW1, he goes back to Paris to meet the people he once knew again, but time has never stopped for anyone Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was an inspirational French novelist, critic and essayist who is now considered as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. His aesthetic craft and deep philosophical insight inspired numerous modern writers.
Author : Bart Willigers
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035840979
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Insight written by Bart Willigers and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2022 was supposed the best year of my career. Being in my early 50s I was about to complete my first decade working in the pharmaceutical industry. I would be lying if I said that the transition from the energy industry to pharmaceuticals had been easy, but after a few difficult years I felt confident about the future. Then one day, I was rushed to hospital because I had collapsed in the garden. A scan showed that I had a brain tumour. From that day onwards matters changed dramatically – things that were important to me before lost all their value whilst other things that I had taken for granted before became suddenly very important to me. This book is my attempt to make a difference to all people who are suffering from a terminal illness, or indeed all people who must make personal decisions at difficult and emotionally charged times. This book is intended for individuals who wish to improve their decision-making skills by using structured and analytical thinking. In this personal book, I am using examples and thought experiments to illustrate how decision analysis can be used to increase our awareness of available choices and uncertainties that we are exposed to.
Author : Alba della Fazia Amoia
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Feodor Dostoevsky written by Alba della Fazia Amoia and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A political outcast, a victim of poverty, a compulsive gambler, and an epileptic, Dostoevsky nevertheless produced some of the greatest literary works of all time: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Notes from Underground, The Gambler, The Brothers Karamazov." "This volume, which is for anyone who seeks an acquaintance with this complex genius, surveys the main facts of Dostoevsky's life and his contributions to literature. It offers some of the reasons for his reputation as a creative artist, one who has inspired a biographical and critical literature of immense proportions." "Drawing on the latest research on Dostoevsky's life, Alba Amoia begins with a concise biography before examining in succeeding chapters the novels, novellas and long tales, short stories, theater, memoirs, and journalism. A separate chapter at the conclusion significantly looks at the Russian periodicals of Dostoevsky's time." "Dostoevsky's teeming works, with their extraordinary insight, speak to us in our own century in ways their author could not have foreseen. During the Bolshevik Revolution, a critic asked, "Is it not strange how Dostoevsky seems to revive every time our way of life dissolves in a fiery ferment?" In the ferment of another revolution, in 1990, a Russian parliamentarian, speaking of the old Soviet dispensation, again poignantly invoked Dostoevsky: In the writer's admonishment that happiness cannot be constructed if its foundation is flawed by the tears of a single child."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Malcolm V. Jones
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843313731
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience written by Malcolm V. Jones and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's foremost experts on Dostoevsky presents a new study, focusing on the religious concerns of the enigmatic author.
Author : William Blattner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441114130
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Heidegger's 'Being and Time' written by William Blattner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuum's Reader's Guides are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the reader toward a thorough understanding of often demanding material. Ideal for undergraduate students, the guides provide an essential resource for anyone who needs to get to grips with a philosophical text. Heidegger's Being and Time is one of the most influential and controversial philosophical treatises of the 20th century. It had a profound impact on Sartre and Merleau-Ponty in their further development of phenomenology and existentialism, hugely influenced Gadamer's hermeneutics, and paved the way, partly directly and partly indirectly through Heidegger's later thought, for the emergence of deconstructionism. In addition to being a very important text, it is also a very difficult one. Heidegger presents a number of challenges to the the reader, asking them to abandon many assumptions fundamental to traditional philosophy, such as the mind/body distinction and the concept of substance. The text also introduces a whole host of new concepts and terms and as such is a hugely challenging, yet fascinating, piece of philosophical writing. In Heidegger's 'Being and Time': A Reader's Guide William Blattner explains the philosophical background against which the book was written and provides a clear and concise overview of the key themes and motifs. The book then examines this challenging text in details, guiding the reader to a clear understanding of Heidegger's work as a whole. Finally Blattner explores the reception and influence of the work and offers the student guidance on further reading. This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192838285
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book White Nights written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the stories in this volume, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels.
