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A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Oxford World's Classics) - Community Reviews back

by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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riley
riley rated it 14 years ago
Just reviewing a Gentle Creature. This is a little change, because he actually explains in the preface what he is doing stylistically, which is notably different from most of his other work. It's interesting and it is a real twist on the "man saving a woman" plot. I have trouble with the male cha...
riley
riley rated it 14 years ago
In light of the Prince and Karamazov, I find this fascinating because it seems to represent his usual (later) sentiment/mission but on a much smaller scale. That is so much more difficult to accomplish (and I'm not sure he succeeds, necessarily) but the effort is admirable. I think this is mostly ...
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