Souvenirs de la maison des morts est un roman de l'ecrivain russe Fiodor Dostoievski dont l'action se deroule dans un bagne en Siberie."

Souvenirs de la maison des morts

Ce livre est plus connu sous le titre Le bourg de Stepantchikovo et sa population. Par une lettre, le narrateur est invité à rejoindre son oncle de toute urgence dans le village de Stepantchikovo, où il devra épouser une jeune gouvernante qu'il n'a pourtant jamais vue. Rendu sur les lieux, il pense se trouver dans un asile de fous: l'entière maisonnée est soumise à la tyrannie imbécile d'un tartuffe de province, anime d'une haine inexpugnable envers le monde qui a fait de lui un raté.Ce roman fut écrit par un auteur qui, après dix ans de bagne et de relégation, revenait dans la vie littéraire."Extrait:Sa retraite prise, mon oncle, le colonel Yegor Ilitch Rostaniev, se retira dans le village de Stepantchikovo ou il vecut en parfait hobereau. Contents de tout, certains caracteres se font a tout; tel etait le colonel. On s'imaginerait difficilement homme plus paisible, plus conciliant et, si quelqu'un se fut avise de voyager sur son dos l'espace de deux verstes, sans doute l'eut-il obtenu. Il etait bon a donner jusqu'a sa derniere chemise sur premiere requisition. Il etait bati en athlete, de haute taille et bien decouple, avec des joues roses, des dents blanches comme l'ivoire, une longue moustache d'un blond fonce, le rire bruyant, sonore et franc, et s'exprimait tres vite, par phrases hachees. Marie jeune, il avait aime sa femme a la folie, mais elle etait morte, laissant en son coeur un noble et ineffacable souvenir. Enfin, ayant herite du village de Stepantchikovo, ce qui haussait sa fortune a six cents ames, il quitta le service et s'en fut vivre a la campagne avec son fils de huit ans, Hucha, dont la naissance avait coute la vie de sa mere, et sa fillette Sachenka, agee de quinze ans, qui sortait d'un pensionnat de Moscou ou on l'avait mise apres ce malheur. Mais la maison de mon oncle ne tarda pas a devenir une vraie arche de Noe. Voici comment. Au moment ou il prenait sa retraite apres son heritage, sa mere, la generale Krakhotkine, perdit son second mari, epouse quelque seize ans plus tot, alors que mon oncle, encore simple cornette, pensait deja a se marier. Longtemps elle refusait son consentement a ce mariage, versant d'abondantes larmes, accusant mon oncle d'egoisme, d'ingratitude, d'irrespect. Elle arguait que la propriete du jeune homme suffisait a peine aux besoins de la famille, c'est-a-dire a ceux de sa mere avec son cortege de domestiques, de chiens, de chats, etc. Et puis, au beau milieu de ces recriminations et de ces larmes, ne s'etait-elle pas mariee tout a coup avant son fils? Elle avait alors quarante-deux ans. L'occasion lui avait paru excellente de charger encore mon pauvre oncle, en affirmant qu'elle ne se mariait que pour assurer a sa vieillesse l'asile refuse par l'egoiste impiete de son fils et cette impardonnable insolence de pretendre se creer un foyer.

Carnet d'un inconnu

Mr. Prohartchin lives a miserable life. To his neighbors he is a man to be pitied, living in a bare apartment with little more than a mattress on the floor. His meals are sparse and frugal, and he is isolated from society. However, when his landlady investigates his apartment upon his death, she finds that there was more to Mr. Prohartchin than she and her other tenants ever could have guessed."Mr. Prohartchin" was first published in Annals of the Fatherland in 1846 and was inspired by a true story. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Mr. Prohartchin - Short Story

"Bobok" (Russian: Бобок, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that first appeared in 1873. The title can be translated from the Russian as meaning "little bean" and in the context of the story is taken to be synonymous with gibberish or nonsense.

Bobok

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russia. This translation by Constance Garnett from the original Russian is widely regarded as a reference. Garnett translated seventy volumes of Russian prose for publication, including all of Dostoyevsky's novels. Dostoyevsky's works of fiction include 17 short stories, in this edition we present 7 stories, including two of his 2 most famous works "White Nights" and "Notes From the Underground": WHITE NIGHTS, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, A FAINT HEART, A CHRISTMAS TREE AND A WEDDING, POLZUNKOV, A LITTLE HERO and MR. PROHARTCHIN.

White Nights and Other Stories

Le Rêve de l'oncle est le premier roman écrit par Dostoïevski à sa sortie du bagne, entre 1856 et 1859 (il est encore en Sibérie). Cette comédie, conçue à l'origine pour le théâtre, n'est pas foncièrement gaie ; et pourtant, on ne peut s'empêcher de rire en lisant ces annales écrites par un imbécile sur la façon dont une grande dame d'une ville de province veut marier sa fille avec un vieillard sénile. Ici, le comique est tellement outré qu'il devient source de malaise : à travers le personnage de l'oncle (du narrateur), à ce point gâteux qu'il est incapable de savoir si son mariage est un rêve ou une réalité, Dostoïevski témoigne d'une fascination sordide pour le ridicule et fouille les limites les plus secrètes de nos consciences.

Le Rêve de l'oncle

After attending a wedding, a man is reminded of a Christmas party that he had been invited to years before. At the party, the man found himself isolated from most of the conversation, so began watching the other guests and the children as he idled. Soon, he witnessed an event that will eventually result in the wedding at which he is to be a guest years later."A Christmas Tree and a Wedding" was adapted into a film of the same name in 2000, and was directed by Will Wallace. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

A Christmas Tree and a Wedding - Short Story

The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider the circumstances in the midst of which our society is formed. I have tried to expose to the view of the public more distinctly than is commonly done, one of the characters of the recent past. He is one of the representatives of a generation still living. In this fragment, entitled "Underground, " this person introduces himself and his views, and, as it were, tries to explain the causes owing to which he has made his appearance and was bound to make his appearance in our midst. In the second fragment there are added the actual notes of this person concerning certain events in his life.

Notes from the Underground

MY DEAREST BARBARA ALEXIEVNA, -How happy I was last night-how immeasurably, how impossibly happy! That was because for once in your life you had relented so far as to obey my wishes. At about eight o'clock I awoke from sleep (you know, my beloved one, that I always like to sleep for a short hour after my work is done)-I awoke, I say, and, lighting a candle, prepared my paper to write, and trimmed my pen. Then suddenly, for some reason or another, I raised my eyes-and felt my very heart leap within me! For you had understood what I wanted, you had understood what my heart was craving for. Yes, I perceived that a corner of the curtain in your window had been looped up and fastened to the cornice as I had suggested should be done; and it seemed to me that your dear face was glimmering at the window, and that you were looking at me from out of the darkness of your room, and that you were thinking of me.

Souvenirs de la maison des morts

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