Humiliated and Insulted (Alma Classics): From the Notes of an Unsuccessful Author - Softcover

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184749269X ISBN 13: 9781847492692

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is not "at all inferior to the other great masterpieces" and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and, above all, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful literary presence in his own right. This new translation catches the verve and tumult of the original, which - in concept and execution - affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author.

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Review:

'The real nineteenth-century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.' --Albert Camus

'Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!' --Albert Einstein

'The only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.' --Friedrich Nietzsche

About the Author:

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is considered one of the greatest writers of all times. His works include such seminal novels as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Karamazov Brothers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 184749269X
• ISBN 13: 9781847492692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450