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The Village of Stepanchikovo
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
其他書名
And Its Inhabitants: from the Notes of an Unknown
出版Penguin Publishing Group, 1995-12
主題Fiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryLiterary Criticism / Russian & Soviet
ISBN01404465839780140446586
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vemzIaWiLn8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with Yegor’s mother and now holds the entire household under his thumb. Watching the absurd theatrics of this domestic tyrant over forty-eight explosive hours, Sergey grows increasingly furious - until at last, he feels compelled to act. A compelling comic exploration of petty tyranny, The Village of Stepanchikovo reveals a delight in life’s wild absurdities that rivals even Gogol’s. It also offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of the characters and situations of many of Dostoyevsky’s great later novels, including The Idiot, Devils and The Brothers Karamazov.