24: Dostoyevsky Bilingual

Cover: Tony Bowden

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  The Many Faces of Fyodor Mikhailovich

  Sarah Young

  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is known for huge, intense, philosophical works, but this reputation ignores the great variety of his writing. Literature
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  The Petersburg Feuilletons

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  A journalistic piece from 1847, in which Fyodor Mikhailovich lambasts "the dreamer" omnipresent in St. Petersburg life. Literature

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  Translation by: Nora Seligman Favorov
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  Letter Before Exile

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  A letter the author wrote to his brother, immediately before his transport into Siberian exile. Memoir

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  Translation by: Nora Seligman Favorov
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  Masha is Lying on the Table

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  A diary entry Dostoyevsky wrote on the death of his first wife, which became an extraordinary and impassioned meditation on death, immortality and human relationships. Memoir

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  Translation by: Eugenia Sokolskaya
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  The Crocodile

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Dostoyevsky's hilarious story about a man swallowed by a crocodile, which was also a brilliant satire on political economy and the importation of Western ideas to Russia. Humor

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  Translation by: Constance Garnett , Sarah Young
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  Letter to Sofya

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  In this letter to his niece, Dostoyevsky describes the thinking behind Prince Myshkin, the central character in his novel The Idiot. Memoir

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  Translation by: Nora Seligman Favorov
• 103

  Fathers and Children

  Lydia Razran Stone

  A 24-line poem that summarizes Dostoyevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
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  Vlas

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  This extract from The Writer's Diary tells the story of a peasant's religious conversion, which Dostoyevsky turns into a discussion of the nature of Russian peasants. Fiction

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  Translation by: Kenneth Lantz