White Nights
Set in St. Petersburg, this is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together. A blend of romanticism and realism, the story appeals gently to the senses and feelings.
77 pages
Published
2007
(first published January 1st 1385)
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چرا آنچه را که در قلب خود داريم،دقيقن بر زبان نمي آوريم،اگر واقعن منظورمان همان است؟ با اين وجود،همه سعی دارند نفرت انگيزتر از آنچه هستند، به نظر آيند.گويی هراس دارند اگر خود را براحتی به نمايش گذارند،اين عمل توهينی به احساسات آنها تلقی گردد...خدای مهربان!آيا يک لحظه شادی کامل برای يک عمر کافی نيست؟...!
"Le mie notti finirono un mattino."Questa è la storia di uno sconfitto. E' la storia di un eremita che vede la città per la prima volta. Di un cavernicolo platoniano subito accecato dal sole.
Il nostro protagonista è un ragazzo giovane, ventisei anni; prima di dire qualsiasi cosa di lui, ce n'è una che bisogna specificare: è un sognatore. E' una di quelle persone che non vede l'ora che si faccia buio per tornare a casa e immergersi nelle sue fantasticherie, una nuova ogni sera.
«Un nuovo sogno -...more
Jun 10, 2013
Brenda
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Cuando te encuentras con historias tan universales como esta, historias que has vivido en tus propias carnes, que sientes tuyas, historias que te hacen dejar el libro a un lado mientras resoplas y te obligan a dar una vuelta por toda la casa intentado asumir que lo que estás leyendo es real y que lo ha escrito otra persona, que no es producto de tu imaginación ni de tu loca cabecita, te das cuenta de que da igual cómo te llames. Da igual si te llamas Fiódor, Nastienka o incluso Brenda. Da igual...more
May 14, 2012
Chiara Pagliochini
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Ad esser sinceri, mi dispiacerebbe dare una recensione completa di questo breve romanzo. Una recensione, per me, è un fissare il giudizio, ma quando il giudizio non si vuol fissare, quando si preferisce che le parole restino in circolo, allora è bene non esprimersi. Rileggerò questo libricino molte volte. Lo rileggerò perché, per quanto possa essere assurdo e banale, questo libricino parla di me, mi definisce e circoscrive le mie colpe, fissa la mia penitenza, la sconfitta inevitabile del sognat...more
A man of solitude and unhappiness survives through life with the encounters of good dreams. He dreams of friends and life-mate's and all is about to come to true in one inopportune encounter with a distressed lady. Can he live out his dream or must they just remain as dreams?
The writing prose is well done and the story touches on the two characters despair and happiness well. Self reflection for one protagonist might be one way to sum up the story.
The writing prose is well done and the story touches on the two characters despair and happiness well. Self reflection for one protagonist might be one way to sum up the story.
Oct 18, 2008
Tatiana
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This story, really a novella, is the one I use to introduce people to Dostoyevsky. If you like White Nights you will like Fyodor Mikailovich, I think, and if you don't you won't. In it we're introduced to a charming intelligent young man who lives on the edges of St. Petersburg life, a shy dreamer who spends almost all his time alone. The life of his observations and imagination is very full, however. He daydreams in 3d with vivid colors passionate intricate tales that engross him completely, to...more
'White Nights' is a wonderful little novella, filled with such glorious writing. This was my very first Dostoevsky book, but it won't be my last by any means. I absolutely adored his writing throughout, and felt thathe created such beauty, especially out of nature. I felt a certain comradeship with our narrator. He was kind and incredibly eloquent, and I loved the way in which he thought more about Nastenka than anyone, or anything, else. Nastenka intrigued me throughout. I loved the passages wh...more
Questo, tra i romanzi che ho letto di Dostoeviskij, è quello più lontano dal suo solito modo di scrivere sia per tematica che per insegnamento morale.
Non ci sono tormenti legati a problemi economici, non è l'ambiente a abbrutire il protagonista. E' l'amore a schiavizzarlo, l'amore ad annientarlo e a renderlo insonne.
Il protagonista di questo romanzo è un sognatore, un uomo incapace di vivere la vita reale che riesce a sognarne di inverosimili, a creare corrispondenze tra i ricordi e le immagini...more
Non ci sono tormenti legati a problemi economici, non è l'ambiente a abbrutire il protagonista. E' l'amore a schiavizzarlo, l'amore ad annientarlo e a renderlo insonne.
Il protagonista di questo romanzo è un sognatore, un uomo incapace di vivere la vita reale che riesce a sognarne di inverosimili, a creare corrispondenze tra i ricordi e le immagini...more
"It was a lovely night, one of those nights, dear reader, which can only happen when you are young. The sky was so bright and starry that when you looked at it the first question that came into your mind was whether it was really possible that all sorts of bad-tempered and unstable people could live under such a glorious sky. . . .
The mention of bad-tempered and unstable people reminds me that during the whole of this day my behaviour has been above reproach...."
From this delightful, gently iro...more
The mention of bad-tempered and unstable people reminds me that during the whole of this day my behaviour has been above reproach...."
From this delightful, gently iro...more
The psychological complexity of its main character, the unnamed dreamer is lost between his dreams and the reality, embracing continuously the need for change.
I was compelled, throughout the exploration of his emotional and spiritual dilemmas, the bitter loneliness in which he is absorbed, his sentimental deceptions and life struggles, to ponder. Undoubtedly, Dostoevsky craft existentialist observations and excogitations in his story that confirm him as a precursor thinker of existentialism.
Love...more
One of Dostoyevsky's pre-prison works. A story of a lonely man confessing his lonliness to a young lady met on the street; Nastenka. The girl confesses her lonliness due to the fact that she has been pinned to her grandmother and was waiting for her lover to return. Over the next few nights they become close while waiting for her lover, when it appeared that he would not return Nastenka promised her love to the main character only to have the man of her love return that night and she chooses him...more
Mai letto nulla di Dostoevskij prima d'ora. Non so se ho fatto bene a iniziare da questo o meno.
La sensazione che ne ho tratto è di una indicibile delicatezza. Il sognatore è leggero, altruista, si insinua in punta di piedi. Quando realizza di essere completamente esterno alla realtà e di non conoscere realmente nessuno, mi fa una tenerezza estrema, mi mette quasi tristezza: come Nasten'ka non posso fare a meno di lasciarlo parlare e raccontare e parlare...
La sensazione che ne ho tratto è di una indicibile delicatezza. Il sognatore è leggero, altruista, si insinua in punta di piedi. Quando realizza di essere completamente esterno alla realtà e di non conoscere realmente nessuno, mi fa una tenerezza estrema, mi mette quasi tristezza: come Nasten'ka non posso fare a meno di lasciarlo parlare e raccontare e parlare...
"In quei luoghi sembra che non giunga
...more
I always marvel and wonder at the talent of some writers to tell such deep things and universal truths in such a unique way in such few pages. This work is a prime example for this.
I loved how I could reflect the things it told me about relationships to the modern world and its dating sphere. To put it simple: friendzone back then, that is :). Well, of course, it is more than that, but that's what immediately came to my mind. We have a hero (or heroine, maybe, today, it could be), who's nice, ge...more
I loved how I could reflect the things it told me about relationships to the modern world and its dating sphere. To put it simple: friendzone back then, that is :). Well, of course, it is more than that, but that's what immediately came to my mind. We have a hero (or heroine, maybe, today, it could be), who's nice, ge...more
Em mais uma de minhas andanças pelas livrarias de São Paulo, não resisti e comprei esta edição da L&PM de Noites Brancas de Dostoiévski. Devorei as 93 páginas no formato “pocket book” no mesmo dia. Que obra fantástica…..virei fã de Dostoiévski e pretendo ler outras obras do mesmo período antes de pegar pesado nos grandes romances como “O idiota” e “Crime e Castigo”.
O russo apresenta uma narrativa sensacional, as palavras encaixam-se com perfeição, quase não consigo fechar meus olhas tamanho...more
O russo apresenta uma narrativa sensacional, as palavras encaixam-se com perfeição, quase não consigo fechar meus olhas tamanho...more
Antes de cualquier cosa que pudiera escribir tengo que admitir que tal vez le tenía demasiado respeto a este autor, pensé en más de una ocasión en tardarme unos años en leer cualquier cosa sobre él, ya sea para comprenderlo mejor, o porque me atemorizaba no comprender absolutamente nada de su afamada complejidad. Por suerte, me importo un carajo eso cuando estaba en la libreria.
Tengo, y me refiero casi a un deber, que utilizar el adjetivo sublime para esta corta novela, simplemente el desarrollo...more
Tengo, y me refiero casi a un deber, que utilizar el adjetivo sublime para esta corta novela, simplemente el desarrollo...more
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داستایوسکی
داستان مردی بسیار خیال پرداز که هیچ وقت زندگی و عشق را به طور واقعی و در واقعیت تجربه نکرده است. او همیشه تنها بود. دلبستگی اش به دیوار ها، ساختمان ها و اماکن شهر بیشتر از انسان ها بود. درخیالات خودش بار ها عاشق شده بود. زندگی خیالی را بسیار قابل تحمل تر و بهتر از واقعی می دانست. تا اینکه یک شب با دختری (ناستنکا) آشنا می شود. دختر فقط در صورتی اجازه می دهد که با او باشد که رابطه شان بدون عشق باشد. آن دو تصمیم می گیرند که سرگذشت زندگی خود را برای هم بازگو کنند. او خود را انسا...more
داستایوسکی
داستان مردی بسیار خیال پرداز که هیچ وقت زندگی و عشق را به طور واقعی و در واقعیت تجربه نکرده است. او همیشه تنها بود. دلبستگی اش به دیوار ها، ساختمان ها و اماکن شهر بیشتر از انسان ها بود. درخیالات خودش بار ها عاشق شده بود. زندگی خیالی را بسیار قابل تحمل تر و بهتر از واقعی می دانست. تا اینکه یک شب با دختری (ناستنکا) آشنا می شود. دختر فقط در صورتی اجازه می دهد که با او باشد که رابطه شان بدون عشق باشد. آن دو تصمیم می گیرند که سرگذشت زندگی خود را برای هم بازگو کنند. او خود را انسا...more
جوانی نسبتاً احساساتی و پرشور در خیابان به دختری برمیخورد که در او تأثیری حاد به جا میگذارد. در آغاز، این ضربه صاعقه آسا از حدود طبیعی فراتر نمیرود که فردی یکه و تنها در حضور موجودی دلپذیر، که با لذتی خاص به سخنانش گوش فرا میدهد، احساس میکند. لیکن، پس از چند دیدار شبانه، که در آنها این دو جوان فقط به سخن گفتن با یکدیگر میپردازند، مرد میبیند که عشق افلاطونی او در تبدیل به طلب جسمانی شده است. وی برعهده میگیرد که از جانب دختر به نامههای نامزد او، دانشجویی ساکن شهر دیگر، پاسخ بنویسد و بدینسان برای...more
Jun 02, 2011
Micha
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No one. I found it myself or it found me.
This is one of the most beautiful, endearing short stories I have ever had the pleasure to read. It's characters, even the city itself, have become close to me and I wish them well in everything. I find myself thinking wistfully on their lives and where they are going now, long after we have parted. Will we ever meet again as old friends sometimes do and talk together of what has happened since? Will we not spend an afternoon or our own white night learning of what has become of one another.
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Read it if you have loved and lost ..
If loved but not lost then am sure you have been through the fear of loosing...
But if you have never loved then you can never feel the soul of this book!!
The grey cloudy sky of London.. the electric blue structures and aura of Russia... sitting next to the window with rain drops moving in a trickle...
Remembering the good old days.. even though they were not much better than now.. they still seemed to be freer than today.. with lesser baggage and loads of mem...more
If loved but not lost then am sure you have been through the fear of loosing...
But if you have never loved then you can never feel the soul of this book!!
The grey cloudy sky of London.. the electric blue structures and aura of Russia... sitting next to the window with rain drops moving in a trickle...
Remembering the good old days.. even though they were not much better than now.. they still seemed to be freer than today.. with lesser baggage and loads of mem...more
شبهای سپید یا شبهای روشن داستانی از فئودور میخایلوویچ داستایوفسکی نویسنده روسی است ، که در 1848 منتشر شده و دومین اثر این نویسنده بزرگ است، اثری که خود داستایوفسکی، در یکی از نامه هایش، آن را «رمان احساساتی» تعریف کرده است. مع الوصف با توجه به بافت غیرواقعی آن، درست تر این است که «تفنن رمانتیک» خوانده شود. جوانی نسبتاً احساساتی و پرشور در خیابان به دختری برمیخورد که در او تأثیری حاد به جا می گذارد. در آغاز، این ضربه صاعقه آسا از حدود طبیعی فراتر نمی رود که فردی یکه و تنها در حضور موجودی دلپذیر،...more
Ohhh. Mi ci voleva proprio un bel classico, e “Le notti bianche” è una vera perla: il Dosto si aggiunge ora alla lista dei miei mentori/scrittori preferiti.
Diciamo che quando l’ho iniziato non ero altrettanto soddisfatta. Era notte, innanzitutto, perché avevo pensato tutta contenta: “Se leggo un libro simile di notte non potrà che essere ancora più bello!” Non avevo calcolato che, però, alle undici e mezza di sera io sono di regola incredibilmente assonnata (per non dire rimbambita).
Insomma,...more
The psychological complexity of its main character, the unnamed dreamer is lost between his dreams and the reality, embracing continuously the need for change.
I was compelled, throughout the exploration of his emotional and spiritual dilemmas, the bitter loneliness in which he is absorbed, his sentimental deceptions and life struggles, to ponder. Undoubtedly, Dostoevsky craft existentialist observations and excogitations in his story that confirm him as a precursor thinker of existentialism.
Love...more
I was compelled, throughout the exploration of his emotional and spiritual dilemmas, the bitter loneliness in which he is absorbed, his sentimental deceptions and life struggles, to ponder. Undoubtedly, Dostoevsky craft existentialist observations and excogitations in his story that confirm him as a precursor thinker of existentialism.
Love...more
This is only the third short story written by Dostoyevsky that I have read but I am starting to like him. I liked the main character, the dreamer, because I sort of am like that (yes, we actually exist). I didn’t like the way he spoke though, it made him seem, to me at least, pretentious. It could be Dostoyevsky’s fault, it could even be mine, who cares, that’s what I think about it. I hoped for a while that the story would end up in a Hollywoodian fashion even though my darker side craved for t...more
A very powerful short story of two dreamers who meet and form a friendship. The two protagonists have their own idealized beliefs about love, but can idealizations provide the basis for a lasting relationship? Although the answer to this question and the ending to this story can be predicted pages before the story comes to its end, Dostoyevsky's writing is superb and appealing to the emotions. This was the first work by him that I read and it definitely won't be the last!
I enjoyed this short story when I first read it many years ago. I loved it because it's so sentimental and (spoiler ahead!) the ending is emotionally painful. I was a hopeless romantic, and I could identify with protagonists who are heart-broken.
I read this a few days ago and I still like it. I still find it well-written, romantic, and sad.
What is the story about? (More spoilers ahead!)
The protagonist is unnamed. He is a loner. One night, while walking along the streets of St Petersburg, he sees...more
I read this a few days ago and I still like it. I still find it well-written, romantic, and sad.
What is the story about? (More spoilers ahead!)
The protagonist is unnamed. He is a loner. One night, while walking along the streets of St Petersburg, he sees...more
White Nights is a classic example of a shy boy falling in love with a girl whose heart is already taken. However, what isn’t classic and what makes the book worth reading, is the way in which Dostoyevsky manages to present the encounter of these two strangers and the terror/joy the main character experiences (+ an interesting perspective of St. Petersburg through the eyes of a restless young man). Overall, an easy reading book that might warm one’s heart.
La singolare affinità di due anime sconosciute l'una a l'altra colora quattro bianche notti pietroburghesi, la cui magia è frutto di un incantesimo che poteva appartenere solo al genio di Dostoyevsky, non ancora scosso dalla prigionia e dalla sofferenza. Gli elementi cardine dei capolavori della maturità ci sono già tutti, anche se in forma embrionale, in particolare quella straordinaria capacità di entrare in contatto con l'io più autentico e profondo dei personaggi, nella cui interiorità si ri...more
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LE NOTTI BIANCHE – Fëdor M. Dostoevskij
“Sono un sognatore; ho una vita talmente limitata che mi capitano momenti come questo, come adesso, tanto di rado che non posso non ripercorrere questi momenti nei miei sogni.”
È la storia di un giovane che una sera, in una Pietroburgo deserta, incontra una ragazza, Nasten’ka. Per quattro notti, i due si raccontano le loro vite, le loro speranze sul futuro e la possibilità di un matrimonio si fa sempre più vicina. Un mattino, però, tutto svanisce: la donna g...more
“Sono un sognatore; ho una vita talmente limitata che mi capitano momenti come questo, come adesso, tanto di rado che non posso non ripercorrere questi momenti nei miei sogni.”
È la storia di un giovane che una sera, in una Pietroburgo deserta, incontra una ragazza, Nasten’ka. Per quattro notti, i due si raccontano le loro vite, le loro speranze sul futuro e la possibilità di un matrimonio si fa sempre più vicina. Un mattino, però, tutto svanisce: la donna g...more
داستان عاشقانه از نویسنده جنایت و مکافات ، برادران کارامازوف ، قمار باز ، خاطرات خانه اموات ، بیچارگان؟ اولش مثل یک شوخی بود بعد که داستان را خواندم ، جدی شد. و چه لطافتی دارد داستان زیبای داستایوفسکی.داستان چهار شب از زندگی دو فرد که تصادفا بهم بر می خورند و انگار سالهاست همدیگر را می شناسند. فیلمی که فرزاد موتمن با برداشت آزاد از این داستان ساخته هم دوست داشتنی و لطیف است. و شاید راجع به آن باید مطلبی جداگانه نوشت. و جمله آخر کتاب : خدای من ، یک دقیقه تمام شادکامی! آیا این نعمت برای سراسر زندگ...more
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human soul had a profound influence on the 20th century novel.
Dostoevsky was the second son of a former army doctor. He was educated at home and at a private school. Shortly after the death of his mother in 1837 he was sent to S...more
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“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn't have known you better if we'd been friends for twenty years. You won't fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you've made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you've reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.
When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-
If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don't need to wish her anything, for she'll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
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When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-
If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don't need to wish her anything, for she'll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”











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