Uncle's Dream: New Translation - Newly Translated and Annotated

The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make such a union come about, she must contend with rival matchmakers and Zina's wilfulness.

Written soon after Dostoevsky was released from the prison camp that inspired The House of the Dead, Uncle's Dream shares very little of that novel's gloomy tone and contains many elements of a light, drawing-room farce. Beneath the surface, however, lies a sharply satirical voice which looks ahead in part to later novels such as Devils.

About the author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81) was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. His most famous work includes Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. He is considered to be one of Europe's major novelists.

Summary

Uncle's Dream is a humorous drawing-room novella, a satire of Russian society that can be enjoyed as a lighter counterpoint to the author's later works.

Foreword

Written soon after Dostoevsky was released from the prison camp that inspired The House of the Dead - beneath the surface lies a sharply satirical voice which looks ahead to later novels such as Devils.

Additional text

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!

Report

No novelist ever wrestled with materialism more fiercely and intelligently than Dostoevsky. Jonathan Franzen

Product details

• Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fjodor M. Dostojewskij
• Assisted by: Hugh Aplin (Translation), Roger Cockrell (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781847497680
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-768-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: 101 Pages series - Alma Classics; Alma Classics 101 Pages; 101 Pages; 101 Pages series - Alma Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: Humor, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, Literature - Classics / Criticism