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Netochka Nezvanova

Netochka Nezvanova

By Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Published by SNR Audio

English 2023 ISBN 9781805360728
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"There are moments in which you live through more in your consciousness than in whole years." Netochka Nezvanova was originally intended to be a large-scale work in the form of a confession, but a background sketch of the eponymous heroine's childhood and adolescence is all that was completed and published. Netochka Nezvanova—a "Nameless Nobody"— is a young girl whose childhood is dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. Efimov's madness brings terrible poverty and discord to the family, and leaves the young Netochka with a premature and painful insight into the dark side of human emotions. Rescued by an aristocratic family and borne into the glittering salons of aristocratic St. Petersburg, Netochka discovers that privilege brings its own kind of loneliness. The novel was abandoned when Dostoyevsky was exiled to Siberia for 'revolutionary activities' in 1849 and never completed, yet it offers a glimpse of the themes that would later define the author's work—alienation, suffering, and the search for redemption. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer renowned for his profound explorations of psychology, morality, and the human condition. Born in Moscow, his tumultuous life was marked by early literary success and followed by arrest and exile due to his radical political activities. He is widely regarded as one of the world's finest novelists, penning classics that include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. His work has had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction and his ideas have profoundly shaped literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism.

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