FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKI

This collection -- unique to the Modern Library -- gathers seven of Dostoevsky 's key works, including his most famous story, "Notes from Underground". Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's important translation.

"Algunos espíritus adelantados se dan cuenta que tras el gigantesco Tolstoi , asoma, imponente y arrasador, Dostoievski . Es él, Dostoievski, el nudo misterioso de una cadena. Algunos de los más caudalosos ríos fluyen de su cauce. Dostoievski posee la grandeza de Ibsen y Nietzche y, es, tal vez, el más importante de los tres." André Gide

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police inve...

'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for...

In an attempt to woo two wholesome women--Natasya and Aglaia--the lovesick Prince Myshkin's good deeds are overshadowed by Ganya, the dishonest man of interest to the women, in this volume that includes an introduction and notes.

Recuerdos de la casa de los muertos (en ruso: ??????? ?? ???????? ????), traducida también como Memorias de la casa de los muertos, es una novela del autor Fiodor Mijáilovich Dostoievski publicada en 1862. En esta obra se refleja la desesperación del autor cuando estuvo encarcelado por crìmenes contra la seguridad del Estado. Se le acusó de deba...

Su novela "El Adolescente" (1875) narra la relación conflictiva de un joven con su padre, al cual odia y admira a la vez, mientras anhela la felicidad universal y descuida su propio bienestar.

Una obra maestra de la literatura universal. La historia de un parricido, una tragedia familiar y doméstica, y al tiempo una brutal y lúcida metáfora de la vida humana. Odio, amor, crueldad, compasión. Sentimientos radicalmente enfrentados, narrados a través de las voces de un terrateniente -borracho, arbitrario y corrompido- y sus cuatro hijos.

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family’s rifts; and the sha...

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin - known as ‘the idiot’ - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utte...