– White Nights: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Little Clothbound Classics)

The best novella I’ve ever read

"only I would love you, I would love you so, that even if you still loved him, even if you went on loving the man I don’t know, you would never feel that my love was a burden to you."

For sure there is a sense of distance - of time, of place, of culture - which made some aspects of the first story 'White Nights’ a little hard to digest. The narrator is unusual even for his own time and place - obsessive, lonely, highly emotional - but his desperate diatribes to the young woman he has fallen for, are melodramatic, somewhat repetitive and difficult to process. The second story ‘Bobok' - where we get to overhear the conversations of the recently dead in a cemetery, just blew me away. How many times - as a frequenter of graveyards - have I wondered what the dead would tell us, and and what would they say to their near neighbours, if they could talk?! And, of course, they are just as they were when they lived, bickering, egotistical, small-minded. I will never think of the dead in quite the same way again...

Great quality

I brought it for my friend and she loved it so I am assuming it's a good buy

👍

Unfortunately the cover was dirty with grey marks and it wasn't at all sealed

Nice short read

This was a different Dostoevsky story to any I've read. To think it was first published over 170 years ago, it's hard to know if the interactions between the two protagonists is based on any reality of the times. Taking place over four days, the young man and woman go through the gamut of emotions and the love expressed between them seems quite remarkable, especially as they are both so young and inexperienced in relationships. Didn't really work for me, but interesting nonetheless.

Una lectura un poco densa pero entretenido. Un soñador... Y la realidad.

Lovely book, been wanting to read this book for a while now.

Book was in good shape. Excellent story. Very moving.

Buena historia Excelente precio considerando hard cover