My Uncle's Dream & Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivy Litvinov (Translator), Olga Shartse (Translator)

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Genres: Russia

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.

(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)

Reviews

[Aakash Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a die hard fan of dostoyevsky and cannot stop myself from giving 5 stars even to his most unpopular works. I found it to be one of the fast paced books of the Fyodor. "My Uncle's dream" is a sattire on the ill effects of gossip and small town society which leaves the reader dumbfounded in the end. But "Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants" gives a faint sense of the mastery of Fyodor in psychological analysis of human emotions and life which will make him immortal in the history of Russian literature. The two characters Foma Fomich and Colonel are two extremes and are portrayed with the beauty of an artist. I hated Foma ardently and found colonel to be no less than a saint. This is one of the rare novels of Fyodor where you will have a happy ending so I cherished it like a happy kid.

[Ethan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic! Both books are hilarious!

[Alessandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

gaslight, gatekeep,Fomicboss

[Frankie · Rating 4 out of 5]

My Uncle's Dream is a somewhat comic small-town society tale. It satirizes Petersburg society with an emphasis on the evils of gossip. The narration is a little hazy, per usual for Dostoevsky's rushed style, and leaves the reader fairly without a hero. However, Dostoevsky's character diversity finally takes off in this – one of his first post-Siberian stories. The small town setting allows a new set of types to emerge – along with some plausible censorship-dodging political allegory (the Count/Tsar?). Overall, it's an indispensable read for Dostoevsky fans. I only wish there was a better translation available.

Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants is difficult to read – the character types it reveals are extreme. The two paralleled, Foma the user and Colonel Rostanev the enabler, are so realistic to society that it's uncomfortable. Some redemption emerges with the climax, but hardly enough for the modern reader. To put it plainly, Foma is an absurd, loathsome Iago-type, and it pains the reader to watch him work the other characters with barely any justice meted out. Dostoevsky's blunt psychological profiles begin to develop in this novella. Only a hardcore fan or sadist might enjoy this one.

[Abdellatif · Rating 5 out of 5]

God, I forgot to mark as a read and to write a review.
anyway, I remember one thing I thought about this book; it was Brilliant.