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crazyboutx

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« on: January 19, 2006, 04:02:48 PM »
What is your favourite short story by Dostoevsky?

My answer is A Gentle Creature
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2006, 10:31:15 PM »
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A man must stand in fear of just those things
  that truly have the power to do us harm,
  of nothing else, for nothing else is fearsome.
-Dante's Inferno,  C2 88-90
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2006, 04:25:22 PM »
I like the little story he tells about the hundred year old woman.
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2006, 06:29:05 AM »
crocodile!!
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2006, 05:00:25 PM »
"the eternal husband" is super

"a nasty history" is also still one of my favourites.
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2006, 08:41:51 PM »
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"a nasty history" is also still one of my favourites.

I think you mean "a nasty story" - and yeah, it is pretty freagin great.
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A man must stand in fear of just those things
  that truly have the power to do us harm,
  of nothing else, for nothing else is fearsome.
-Dante's Inferno,  C2 88-90
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2006, 01:01:29 AM »
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"

It is in many ways an encapsulation of the most important ideas of Dostoevsky near the end of his life, and it contains many of the themes of his great novels in just 30-35 pages.  Plus it's a helluva compelling story.  I pick it up and read it often when I've got an hour to spare.
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2006, 06:44:57 AM »
Quote from: mjmcneill on January 20, 2006, 04:25:22 PM
I like the little story he tells about the hundred year old woman.

the hundred year old woman? I don't think I've read this one. What is it's name?
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« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2006, 01:40:00 AM »
The Hundred Year-Old Woman story is a very short story in his "Writer's Diary"  I don't have my copy in front of me right now, and I'm sorry I don't remember exactly which month and year, but it is in there somewhere.  I'll find out by the next time I check this site unless someone else has it first.
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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2006, 09:55:28 AM »
ok thanks Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2006, 04:25:57 PM »
The Hundred Year-Old Woman is in the March 1876 entry of "A Writer's Diary".
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« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2006, 04:54:41 PM »
I like Poor Folk, but I still have many of his short works left.
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« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2006, 07:47:16 AM »
Quote from: MikeK on March 06, 2006, 04:25:57 PM
The Hundred Year-Old Woman is in the March 1876 entry of "A Writer's Diary".

thank you for letting me know. i really want to read that book but it's very expensive and i can't make my mum buy it because she hates dostoevsky Sad Sad
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« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2006, 10:12:38 PM »
White Nights. Let's just say I read a very good translation of it at a very appropriate time in my life. That said, I haven't gotten to Dream of a Ridiculous Man yet.
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« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2006, 04:45:45 AM »
White Nights all the way! It is just plain beautiful
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Find me a story more beautiful than White Nights and I will find you a surprised man eating his hat.
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