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Uncle's Dream And Other Stories
Dostoyevsky, FyodorUsed
WOODSTOCK: Classic Fiction
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Paperback. English. Penguin Classics. 1989. In good condition.
Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmosphere of his earlier stories, instead 'Uncle's Dreams' is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and farce in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals. Dostoyevsky's inspiration for 'The Meek Girl' came from a newspaper report on the suicide of a seamstress who plunged from a garret window, holding a religious icon in her hands. According to the critic John Jones, it is 'one of the most powerful studies of despair in world literature, a banging on closed doors imagined with absolute fearlessness.'
Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmosphere of his earlier stories, instead 'Uncle's Dreams' is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and farce in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals. Dostoyevsky's inspiration for 'The Meek Girl' came from a newspaper report on the suicide of a seamstress who plunged from a garret window, holding a religious icon in her hands. According to the critic John Jones, it is 'one of the most powerful studies of despair in world literature, a banging on closed doors imagined with absolute fearlessness.'
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