The Insulted and Humiliated – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
S$72.00
The Insulted and Humiliated – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
S$72.00
Title: The Insulted and Humiliated Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, K. Konstantinov (illus) Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow. No date, most likely circa 1940s-50s. Condition: Hardcover, with dust jacket. Very good. Dust jacket with small closed tears. Slight foxing to edges. Interior in excellent condition. Title pages in Russian and English, text entirely in English.
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About the book (from Goodreads):
The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky’s political imprisonment, clearly foreshadows his later preoccupation with unconscious psychological drives & their external effects on the lives of his characters. Where his later works carry these drives to inevitably dramatic conclusions, The Insulted & Injured confines them within the smaller boundaries of everyday event.
In this story the impulse toward self-abnegation in love, which appears so markedly in both Vanya & Natasha, isn’t itself enough to direct their lives; instead, it combines with their social world & the mundane ambitions of Prince Valkovsky to defeat their hope of happiness. Of all the characters in the novel, only Natasha’s lover, the Prince’s son Alyosha-the person least driven to mold life to his own terms-emerges untouched.
Here are, to a greater extent than in Dostoevsky’s more familiar works, flesh-&-blood people as we see them around every day. They are made up of both good & evil, of will & acceptance. Unfailingly they command interest & illuminate understanding.
