The story opens with the narrator wandering the streets of St. Petersburg. He contemplates how he has always been a ridiculous person, and also, how recently, he has come to the realization that nothing much matters to him any more. It is this revelation that leads him to the idea of suicide. The narrator of the story reveals that he had bought a revolver months previous with the intent of shooting himself in the head.

Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.

The novel chronicles the life of 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov. A focus of the novel is the recurring conflict between father and son, particularly in ideology, which represents the battles between the conventional -old- way of thinking in the 1840s and the new nihilistic point of view of the youth of 1860s Russia. Whereas the young of Arkady's time embraced a very negative opinion of Russian culture in contrast to Western or European culture.

Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments. Devushkin's, for example, is merely a portioned-off section of the kitchen, and he lives with several other tenants, such as the Gorshkovs, whose son who groans in agonizing hunger almost the entire story and eventually dies. Devushkin and Dobroselova exchange letters attesting to their terrible living conditions and the former frequently squanders his money on gifts for her.

The Possessed, also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For an explanation of the marked difference in the English-language title, please see the section -Note on the title- below. An extremely political book, The Possessed is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's...

Les Demons ou Les Possedes est un roman de l'ecrivain russe Fiodor Dostoievski publie en feuilleton a partir de 1871 jusqu'en 1872 dans Le Messager russe, et dont la composition debuta en 18691. Il raconte l'histoire de jeunes revolutionnaires voulant renverser l'ordre etabli, et dont le chef, Piotr Stepanovitch Verkhovensky, souhaite que Nicolai Vsevolodovitch Stavroguine, aristocrate fascinant toutes les personnes qu'il rencontre, prenne sa place a la tete du groupe.

Ce livre regroupe une nouvelle et un court roman de l'auteur, regroupes en deux parties par l'editeur (Librairie Plon): Katia correspond a La Logeuse (1847) et le titre original de Lisa est Le Sous-sol (1863), ce dernier roman etant egalement connu sous les titres suivants: Memoires ecrits dans un souterrain, Les Carnets du sous-sol, Manuscrit du souterrain.

Souvenirs de la maison des morts est un roman de l'ecrivain russe Fiodor Dostoievski dont l'action se deroule dans un bagne en Siberie. Premier recit sur le systeme penitentiaire russe, c'est une oeuvre phare de la litterature concentrationnaire.

Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski; * 11. November 1821 in Moskau; + 9. Februar 1881 in Sankt Petersburg) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten russischen Schriftsteller. Seine schriftstellerische Laufbahn begann 1844; die Hauptwerke, darunter Schuld und Suhne, Der Idiot, Die Damonen und Die Bruder Karamasow, entstanden jedoch erst in den 1860er und 1870er Jahren.

Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, * 11. November 1821 in Moskau; + 9. Februar 1881 in Sankt Petersburg) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten russischen Schriftsteller. Seine schriftstellerische Laufbahn begann 1844; die Hauptwerke, darunter Schuld und Suhne, Der Idiot, Die Damonen und Die Bruder Karamasow, entstanden jedoch erst in den 1860er und 1870er Jahren.