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Title: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Patterson, Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 0-8101-1518-2 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gripping portrait.
Comment: Vivid impressions of the author during his travel all over Europe in the second half of the 19th century. His main targets are France (Paris) and England (London).
He gives us a biting and cynical portrait of the French: parvenus and bourgeois who make a mockery of 'liberté, égalité, fraternité'.
In England, he is confronted with child prostitution in London's Haymarket: a most terrible and moving scene of a child of only six, black and blue beaten, barefoot, who tries to lure him to have sex with her. On the contrary, the Anglican clerics preach a religion for the wealthy and don't even hide it. A most pregnant portrait of the fat and the meagre.
A book to recommend.
Rating: 4
Summary: Capitalism critcism
Comment: In this book Dostoevsky seems to take his time to criticize capitalism ( or so I find), takes as an example French society,
criticizes the accumulation of money and the adulation of god money (Baal), the servilism that comes with it, analyzes the way marital relations are, that is in relation with capitalism (Bribri and Ma biche ).
I found it pretty good, although it requires you to have knowledge of many things of the time it was written, (for instance can you remember who is Guizot?) and be used to the style of Dostoevsky.
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Title: A Writer's Diary: 1873-1876 (Writer's Diary, 1873-1876) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson ISBN: 0810115166 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 by Joseph Frank ISBN: 0691015872 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 09 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Demons: A Novel in Three Parts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear ISBN: 0679734511 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear ISBN: 067973452X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ISBN: 0140444556 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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