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Netochka Nezvanova--a 'Nameless Nobody'--tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her & drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more subtle way, condemning her to remain an outsider--a solitary spectator of a glittering society. Conceived as part of a novel on a grand scale, Netochka Nezvanova remained incomplete after Dostoyevsky was exiled to Siberia for 'revolutionary activities' in 1849. With its depiction of the suffering, loneliness, madness & sin that affect both rich & poor in St Petersburg, it contains the great themes that were to dominate his later novels.
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De verstotene, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski
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- 1996
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- Title
- De verstotene
- Language
- Dutch
- Publisher
- Atlas
- Released
- 1996
- Pages
- 150
- ISBN10
- 9025456448
- ISBN13
- 9789025456443
- Series
- First published
- 1849
- Original title
- Nětočka Nězvanova
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Netochka Nezvanova--a 'Nameless Nobody'--tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her & drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more subtle way, condemning her to remain an outsider--a solitary spectator of a glittering society. Conceived as part of a novel on a grand scale, Netochka Nezvanova remained incomplete after Dostoyevsky was exiled to Siberia for 'revolutionary activities' in 1849. With its depiction of the suffering, loneliness, madness & sin that affect both rich & poor in St Petersburg, it contains the great themes that were to dominate his later novels.