Five classic stories in a new translation. The title story is on a relationship between a husband and his wife's lover, while A Nasty Anecdote is a satire on a tsarist official who considers himself humane.
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
β Scribed by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Volokhonsky, Larissa (transl)
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Year
- 1957
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 303 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780553214444
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β¦ Synopsis
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevskyβs short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevskyβs genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wifeβs lover. Dostoevskyβs dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters, including a government official who shows up uninvited at an underlingβs wedding to prove his humanity; a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wifeβs suicide; and a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead.The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevskyβa collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.
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Five classic stories in a new translation. The title story is on a relationship between a husband and his wife's lover, while A Nasty Anecdote is a satire on a tsarist official who considers himself humane.
**The Eternal Husband and Other Stories** brings together five of Dostoevskys short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range o