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| Original Title: | Кроткая |
| ISBN: | 141910134X (ISBN13: 9781419101342) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Paperback | Pages: 48 pages Rating: 3.89 | 5918 Users | 473 Reviews
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In Hindi, there floats an endearing term – ‘meethi churi’. Its literal translation in English is ‘sweet knife’. And ladies and gentlemen, as you might have rightly guessed, it is fervently used, jocularly or sarcastically, for a person who hands us, our sharpest criticisms, soaked in such honeyed words that we actually look forward to the slow slaying.If there was a school, teaching its pupils to sharpen these knives and slice them victoriously under any skin, anywhere in the world, its Principal most surely be D.
What can one possibly convey in 48 pages chronicling the life of an ordinary forty-one years old scrupulous pawnbroker with a poor wife, all of sixteen? Apparently a lot. That in poverty throbs resentment, in kindness, pride; that a kiss of gratitude is forgotten in the arms of prosperity, a flame of love, extinguished in the rain of jealousy; a helping hand is not without smirk, a sleeping mind is not without doubt; the fear of rarefied high is no more nauseous than the fear of dusty lows; the resolve to kill is the same as the resolve to live.
I remember faint, selective outlines of the teachers who were nice to me. But I remember the face, the eyes, the jawline, the gait, the twitch, the frown, basically everything of the handful of teachers who turned the best view-finders of my life. So what if it came amid torrents of face-offs and inundating numbness?
’For, you know, there’s a greatness of soul in it – to be able to say, “Though I am on the edge of the abyss, yet Goethe’s grand words are radiant with light.”Yes, greatness of soul, of D.
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| Title | : | The Gentle Spirit |
| Author | : | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 48 pages |
| Published | : | June 17th 2004 by Kessinger Publishing (first published 1876) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Short Stories. Literature. Russian Literature |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 5918 Users | 473 ReviewsJudge Based On Books The Gentle Spirit
Dostoevsky is one of my favourite writers. I discovered him in my teenage years, read as many of his books as I could get my hands on, and to be honest haven't read anything else by him in a long time. I still count him as one of my favourite writers, though, more on memory than anything else. His writing is so urgent and immediate, and began to open up a world for me beyond 1990s South London.The Gentle Spirit is very short - longer than a short story, but barely long enough to be called a4.5/5After much thought, I decided I loved this book. It shows what happens to someone's psyche when a traumatic event happens. Memories start to blur, and even denial sinks in. Good shit.
Ah, Dostoyevsky. You never fail to disappoint.
"But a loving woman, oh, a loving woman idolizes even the vices, even the villainy of her beloved being."- Fydor Doostoyevsky, The Meek OneVol N° 44 of my Penguin Little Black Classics Box Set. This volume contains Dostoevsky's short story "The Meek One: A Fantastic Story" aka "A Gentle Creature: A Fantastic Story". It was translated by Ronald Mayer in 2010. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostovesky had read about in 1876.The story is narrated by the pawnbroker husband. He is
Reading Russian literature is a bit like listening to certain bands - now and again I do it for the first time in ages and wonder why I bother with anything else. This short story is fantastic, a perfect recreation of its narrator's crazed, despairing state of mind. He's a pawnbroker (this little parallel with Crime & Punishment perhaps being one of the reasons why the story was chosen for a Little Black Classic edition), who quickly courts and marries a gullible girl, the meek one of the
Same with the few other writings by the immense Dostoyevsky I've read so far: simple - too simple! - and easy, quick to read, but after having finished it, it remains in my head for a long, long time. There must be this undeniable depth that - to my shame - I haven't felt nor penetrated yet.
To find Wandaful found it HUZZAH (see comments underneath)Translated by Constance GarnettOpening: Oh, while she is still here, it is still all right; I go up and look at her every minute; but tomorrow they will take her away and how shall I be left alone? Now she is on the table in the drawing-room, they put two card tables together, the coffin will be here tomorrow white, pure white gros de Naples but thats not it . . Anna suggests this to enhance the story: Tchaikovsky Children's Album op.
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