A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of A Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement fr...