The Crocodile is a great piece of satire, suppressed in the Soviet Union and largely ignored in the West. This wild lampoon is vicious and satirical, dreamlike, and one of the funniest things that Dostoevsky ever wrote. During the Soviet period it was not published separately (and only in passing even in multi- volume academy editions). Dostoevsky's hatred of communism and socialism is rarely as direct and apparent as in this tale. He ridicules the "new men," making Chemyshevsky a laughing-stock by having his think-alike get swallowed by a crocodile - only to survive and preach socialist theories from the beast's belly.
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The Crocodile is an outstanding piece of satire: It is vicious, dreamlike, scatological, and one of the funniest things that Dostoevsky ever wrote. In this brief work, he reveals his hatred of communism and socialism in an unusually direct caricature.
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Like the discovery of love, like the discovery of the ocean, the discovery of Dostoevsky is a memorable event in our lives.

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ISBN
9781468301540
Publisert
2013-01-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Overlook Press
Vekt
95 gr
Høyde
178 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
94

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Biographical note

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is a renowned fiction writer, essayist and philosopher. He was born in Moscow and studied from 1838 to 1843 at the Military Engineering College at St. Petersburg. Following the success of his debut novel "Poor Folk" in 1846, he was arrested and sentenced to death (later commuted to exile) in 1849 for participating in the Petrashevsky Circle. Among his most important works are "Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, " and "The Brothers Karamazov." S. D. Cioran is Professor Emeritus of Russian literature at McMaster University. His other translations include Sologub's "The Petty Demon" and Saltykov's "The Golovlyov Family, " both available from Ardis.