White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky : My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?”

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky  is a fantastic collection of short stories by prolific Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. 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 White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky .

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.

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (/ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/; Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский; IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj]; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works are marked by a preoccupation with Christianity, explored through the prism of the individual confronted with life’s hardships and beauty.

He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His output consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short novels White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.