Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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| Title | : | The Gentle Spirit |
| Author | : | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 48 pages |
| Published | : | June 17th 2004 by Kessinger Publishing (first published 1876) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Short Stories. Literature. Russian Literature |
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In Hindi, there floats an endearing term – ‘meethi churi’. Its literal translation in English is ‘sweet knife’. And ladies and gentlemen, as you might have rightly guessed, it is fervently used, jocularly or sarcastically, for a person who hands us, our sharpest criticisms, soaked in such honeyed words that we actually look forward to the slow slaying.If there was a school, teaching its pupils to sharpen these knives and slice them victoriously under any skin, anywhere in the world, its Principal most surely be D.
What can one possibly convey in 48 pages chronicling the life of an ordinary forty-one years old scrupulous pawnbroker with a poor wife, all of sixteen? Apparently a lot. That in poverty throbs resentment, in kindness, pride; that a kiss of gratitude is forgotten in the arms of prosperity, a flame of love, extinguished in the rain of jealousy; a helping hand is not without smirk, a sleeping mind is not without doubt; the fear of rarefied high is no more nauseous than the fear of dusty lows; the resolve to kill is the same as the resolve to live.
I remember faint, selective outlines of the teachers who were nice to me. But I remember the face, the eyes, the jawline, the gait, the twitch, the frown, basically everything of the handful of teachers who turned the best view-finders of my life. So what if it came amid torrents of face-offs and inundating numbness?
’For, you know, there’s a greatness of soul in it – to be able to say, “Though I am on the edge of the abyss, yet Goethe’s grand words are radiant with light.”Yes, greatness of soul, of D.
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| Original Title: | Кроткая |
| ISBN: | 141910134X (ISBN13: 9781419101342) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Oh my, I do love Dostoyevsky. No, not all his books but most. Here is why I like himhis characters are complicated. Nothing is simplified. His books always make you think. He doesnt lecture, as some other Russian authors do! Here I am thinking of the story I recently read by Tolstoy!Dont expect conclusive answers at the close of the tale. I dont mind that. Life does not provide conclusive answers either. The tale is about a pawnbroker. His wife lies dead on a table in the room next door. Why isIt is often assumed that family is a source of consolation or relief from life's misery elsewhere. A Gentle Creature is a repudiation of this idea. Dostoyevsky conveys to us through the story that family happiness is impossible without harmony in other aspects of our lives. The narrator wanted to dispel his misery and shame by exerting power over his wife, the supposed "gentle creature", whom he treats not as a human but a means/a solution; the same can be said about the narrator's wife as well.
Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicideA story about a pawnbroker recalls the time that he had with his wife as he watches his deceased wife in front of him and thinks about what he has done wrong that can lead her to suicide.By trying to save her youthful life from the abusive neighbour/shop keeper, he asked her hand in marriage as he promised that there will be no hunger but as well as no luxurious lifestyle too. As a pawnbroker,
In Hindi, there floats an endearing term meethi churi. Its literal translation in English is sweet knife. And ladies and gentlemen, as you might have rightly guessed, it is fervently used, jocularly or sarcastically, for a person who hands us, our sharpest criticisms, soaked in such honeyed words that we actually look forward to the slow slaying.If there was a school, teaching its pupils to sharpen these knives and slice them victoriously under any skin, anywhere in the world, its Principal
Ah, Dostoyevsky. You never fail to disappoint.
Sadly I just found this quite boring. Having read 3 things by Dostoyevsky now, I don't think he's really a writer for me. I'm not particularly fond of the rambling, talking to yourself style he seems to love to employ, and the main character in this really wasn't sympathetic at all. Meh.
Maybe, especially in family context, that is still what most people want others to do, Elie - men and women alike - making free choices, but within
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