White Nights and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1848
Before the great novels, the early Dostoevsky stories reveal the same psychological intensity in compressed form. "White Nights" is one of the most beautiful love stories in Russian literature.
The case against
Young Dostoevsky gushes. The Dreamer weeps over his own loneliness for pages before anything happens, and the sentimentality that later novels earn through murder and grace here just sits there, damp. The title story is lovely; the rest of the collection is apprentice work, padded around it. You are buying one famous story and its understudies.
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