Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A StudyW. Heinemann, 1921 - 294 páginas |
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Página 273 - Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Página 129 - Their compliments turned her head, and she determined to become a professional singer. She went to Petersburg, where her brothers were serving as officers in one of the regiments of the Imperial Guard, and disclosed her project to them. " You must be mad I " exclaimed they. " Do you want to have us turned out of our regiment? Our brother officers would not allow us to remain in it if you were to become a professional singer." There has always been a very severe etiquette on such points in Russia...
Página 49 - Russian public was ready to take an interest in the wretched, if they were served up d, la Jean Valjean. Their real life, in all its sordid meanness, interested no one. Dostoyevsky began to lose confidence in his powers. His health gave way, he became nervous and hysterical. Epilepsy was latent in him, and before declaring itself in epileptic seizures, it oppressed him terribly.* He now avoided society, would spend long hours shut up in his own room, or wandering about in the darkest and most deserted...
Página 203 - Among the sidelights on Dostoevskii's family life provided by his daughter Liubov' is the following: When Dostoevskii went to Ems, or was too busy to read to us himself, he begged my mother to read us the works of Walter Scott, and of Dickens... During meals, he would question us concerning our impressions, and evoke episodes in the novels. He, who forgot his wife's name and the face of his beloved, could remember all the English names of the characters of Dickens and Scott who had fired his youthful...
Página 209 - ... the part of the noble, Romanov. I have been present at some of these Imperial visits, and I was surprised at the absence of etiquette and the patriarchal simplicity that obtained. The Russian aristocrats in their turn caused their names to be inscribed in the registers of the nobility, and manoeuvred for election to the office of Marshal. They were by no means always successful. Very often at the elections a prince would be rejected, and a noble, more obscure, but more highly esteemed, would...
Página 226 - ... of his class, and his extraordinary insensibility to the sufferings of the Slavs under the Turks, which had so astonished my father.3 This 1 In Russia the title Count has the same value as the titles Marquis and Viscount in Japan. 2 The poet Alexis Tolstoy was, it is said, a Tolstoy only in name. 3 The American writers who were in Germany at the beginning of the recent war, speak of the insensibility of the Germans, not Germanic origin also explains Tolstoy's curious incapacity to bow to an ideal...
Página 49 - ... and causing passersby to turn and look at him. Friends who met him thought he had gone mad. The colourless, stupid city quenched his talent. The upper classes were mere 1 My father's friends relate in their reminiscences that he often invited strangers to visit him among those he met in the cafes, and that he would spend whole days listening to their conversation and stories. My father's friends could not understand what pleasure he could take in talking to such uneducated people; later, when...
Página 147 - ... carefully. He superintended her reading, keeping erotic books from her, took her to the museums, showed her beautiful pictures and statues, and tried to kindle in her young soul the love of all that is great, pure and noble. He was rewarded by the absolute fidelity of his wife, both during his life and after his death. Like most Lithuanians, Dostoyevsky was pure and chaste. " The Lithuanian despises indecency and debauchery,
Página 193 - ... us when we were little. I was a very nervous child, and cried a good deal. To cheer me up, my father would propose that I should dance with him. The furniture in the drawing-room was pushed back, my mother took her son for her partner, and we danced a country dance. As there was no one to play the piano, we all sang a kind of refrain by way of accompaniment. My mother would compliment her husband on the precision with which he executed the complicated steps of the country-dance. " Ah ! " he would...
Página 43 - ... the capital. It is probable that some strange type, some poor, drunken, ambitious, jealous violinist, discovered by Count Vieillegorsky in a garret, and induced to play at his receptions, struck my father's imagination, for Count Vieillegorsky's house is the scene of his novel Netotchka Nesvanova. In this Dostoyevsky achieved a true masterpiece of feminine psychology, though, in his youthful inexperience, he may not have sufficiently explained it to his public. It is said that Countess Vieillegorsky...