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Brat'ya Karamazovy Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky publisher: , 1880 translated as: The Brothers Karamazov publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1997 translation: Richard Pevear / Larissa Volokhonsky refered to by: War and Peace Leo N. Tolstoy Chapel Road Louis Paul Boon The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch [Mystiek lichaam] Frans Kellendonk The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing
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summary: Three sons find their violent and vengeful lives exposed when their despicable father is murdered, and each man struggles to come to terms with his guilt over his involvement in the crime. |
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| ON DOSTOYEVSKY'S BOOKSHELF The Bible 40 different authors, ca. 1450 B.C. - ca. 95 A.D. Particularly the New Testament (Christian ethics and so on) Hamlet William Shakespeare, 1602 When Hamlet's mother remarries shortly after his father's death he's suspicious. And when his father's ghost tells him that he was murdered by the queens's new husband, Hamlet swears to take his revenge. Macbeth William Shakespeare, 1606 Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition. The Collected Poems Lord Byron, ... This volume comprises the complete poetic works of Byron. As well as including such works as 'Childe Harold', 'Don Juan', 'The Two Foscari', 'The Lament of Tasso' and 'The Vision of Judgement', it also contains his shorter lyrical poems. Eugénie Grandet Honoré de Balzac, 1833 One of the the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie Humaine. Eugénie's emotional awakening brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Bleak House Charles Dickens, 1852-1853 A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens' s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums. David Copperfield Charles Dickens, 1849-1850 The 'widow and orphan novels'. Portrait of the artist as an outcast. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol, 1835-1840 In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions. Les misérables Victor Hugo, 1862 France in the first quarter of the 19th century: Jean Valjean, a poor man, steals a loaf of bread and then spends years trying to escape his reputation as a criminal. In later years he rises to become a respectable member of society; but policeman Javert will not allow him to forget his past. | BOOKS BY FYODOR M. DOSTOYEVSKY: Crime and Punishment 1866 Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, commits a random murder without remorse or regret. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. | WHAT TO READ AFTER CRIME AND PUNISHMENT? CLASSIC PSYCHOLOGICAL CRIME NOVELS The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith, 1956 Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. This is the first novel to feature Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero, Tom Ripley. A Judgement in Stone Ruth Rendell, 1977 Four members of the Coverdale family died in the space of 15 minutes on St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper, shot them down on that Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television, and was arrested two weeks later. But the tragedy neither began nor ended there. Killing Me Softly Nicci French, 1999 Alice is a young woman who has all she wants from life: a group of close friends, a loving boyfriend, a successful career. Then one day she meets a stranger, and gives up her ordered existence for a passionate affair that leads her into deception and a dark, secret, dangerous realm of experience. GUILT AND ATONEMENT The Secret History Donna Tartt, 1992 The Secret History tells of a small circle of friends at an esteemed college in New England, whose studies in Classical Greek lead them to odd rituals, shocking behavior - and murder. The Fall Albert Camus, 1956 Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader' s own complacency. Old People and the Things that Pass Louis Couperus, 1906 'The Hague novels' Three very old people are bound together by a secret, which they believe is known only to them. But unfortunately, this isn't the case. KINDRED (19TH-CENTURY) SPIRITS The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886 In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850 The tale of a passionate woman in 17th-century Boston who challenges the system of moral authority and places belief in the higher law of her own heart. KINDRED (RUSSIAN) SPIRITS A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov, 1840 Lermontov's only novel examines a weary and cynical man trapped in the futility of his age. Despair Vladimir Nabokov, 1934 In this tale, Hermann, a German chocolate manufacturer, stumbles across a man he believes to be his double and starts plotting to turn this accidental encounter to his advantage. [Andegraund, ili Geroj nashego vremeni] Vladimir Makanin, 1998 Petrovich, a hopelessly unpublished writer, goes underground in an effort to 'protect his art' from corruption. |
| Notes from the Underground 1866 The first novel from Dostoevsky's mature 'second period' works, divided in two parts, presents an unnamed protagonist, a twisted angry student, and his worldview. It is one proud man's cry for help and perverse rejection of the world around him. | ||
| The Idiot 1868 The saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest. | ||
| Demons 1871-1872 A powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. (Also published as The Possessed and The Devils) | ||
| The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Three sons find their violent and vengeful lives exposed when their despicable father is murdered, and each man struggles to come to terms with his guilt over his involvement in the crime. | ||
| The Double 1846 Mr Golyadkin is a rather middling man, a somewhat insignificant government official. Then one day he meets his ‘double’ - a man with the same name, face and background. | ||
| The Village of Stepanchikovo 1859 A compelling comic exploration of petty tyranny. | ||
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