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Gentle spirit

Gentle spirit

ClassicsDrama
Pages
64
Published
1931
Language
English

Synopsis

In the quiet wards of a St. Petersburg hospital, a doctor's fevered mind fixates on Krotka — a woman whose name means 'Timid' or 'Gentle', and whose true history he cannot stop trying to piece together. Dostoyevsky's novella is less about plot than about the act of looking: through unreliable narration, fragmented memory, and a narrator consumed by his own illness, it interrogates what can truly be known about another person.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MelancholicReflective

Genres

Classics Drama Short Stories

About the author

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, essayist and philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists in Russian and world literature. Born in Moscow, his life was transformed by four years of imprisonment and exile in Siberia after his involvement with the Petrashevsky Circle, an experience that shaped the psychological depth of his later fiction. His major novels — including Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons...