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Poor Folk: Bednye Lyudi

Poor Folk: Bednye Lyudi

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1784350893
ISBN13: 9781784350895
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 28 2014
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: Russian
Poor Folk is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant living and his developing gambling addiction; although he had produced some translations of foreign novels, they had little success, and he decided to write a novel of his own to try to raise funds. Contemporary critics lauded Poor Folk for its humanitarian themes. While Vissarion Belinsky dubbed the novel Russia's first social novel and Alexander Herzen called it a major socialist work, other critics detected parody and satire. The novel uses a complicated polyphony of voices from different perspectives and narrators.

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