Short-story masterpieces - Vol. IV - Russian

Short-story masterpieces - Vol. IV - Russian

In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_), small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS, text in bold is represented as in =text in bold=. It is really a hopeless task to view within small compass so prolific and so intense a novelist as Fodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski. Indeed, I long questioned the fitness of including him in this series of brief studies, for his little fictions are few; but Russian literature knows no more vigorous novelist than this inartistic though colossal figure, and any compendious treatment of Russian writers would seem inadequate which did not include the author of Crime and Punishment. Apart from a few little stories, Dostoevskis short fictional creations are chiefly episodes in his long and mostly rambling novelspowerful and compact little digressions often almost unrelated to the main thread of the story, but worthy of existence separately as pieces of impressionism. No finer tribute could be paid to a man than to recognize him as the apostle of humble folkunless it were to add that this apostolate was free from the taint of demagoguery and solely the vocation of a tender spirit. Fifty years ago, in the Russia of the sixties, Dostoevski came to the full enduement of his ministry for man.[Pg 6] What Jean Franois Millet saw in the French peasant, that the great Russian novelist felt in the muzhikthe pathos of those who suffer under burdens, the heart-break of hopeless toil, the unexpected beauty gleaming in the midst of ugliness, honey hidden in the carcass of the lion. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 68357
Author: Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg)
Release Date: Jun 20, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Home correspondence school,1912
Publication Date: 1912
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Editor: Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg), 1867-1946

Translator: Cournos, John, 1881-1966