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Very good story, just way to short


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this story really did move me !saddness ,joy ,hatred and above all pity and love for the faithful Inav Petrovitch,the loving Natasha ,the spitful Prince and the Proud little Nellie! such books are written only once in a lifetime of a special Genius ,wounderfull .
My first Dostoyevsky work, and the best I've read so far. Do not miss it! I was lucky enough to get this book as a gift from a relative in Belarus. The translation captures Dostoyevsky exctremely well. In simplistic terms, this is a "love story," Dostoyevsky style. That discription does not do it justice, though. Do not be turned off, this is NOT Danielle Steele or some other WalMart romance brand. The emotion is subtle, but gripping. The characters are such that a reader will relate to this story intimately. You will not be able to tear yourself away from this tale of human weakness as it appears on so many levels and in such provoking form. A must have for a fan of great Russian literature.
Summary Twenty-five-year-old Ivan tells the story of his life from his death bed. His story begins with a strange old man who died in the street in Ivan’s arms. The man’s last words were an address nearby to which Ivan moved for no logical reason. Then Ivan describes his own past. Ivan was an orphan. A country landowner, Nikolai, took him in. Ivan fell in love with Natasha, the landowner’s daughter, who also loved him, especially once Ivan found success as a novelist. Nikolai’s superior, Prince Valkovsky, was a wealthy gentleman from the city with whom Nikolai had had a good relationship. In an effort to strengthen his son’s character, the Prince asked Nikolai to allow his son, Alyosha, to stay with Nikolai. Nikolai agreed and came to love Alyosha like his own son. But the Prince was swayed by rumors and accused Nikolai of causing Alyosha to fall in love with Natasha. At first, this affair appeared to be fantasy. But then, in a scene of intense emotion bordering on madness, Natasha leaves her parents to marry Alyosha. She knows she is ruining herself and her parents, as well as abandoning Ivan, but she cannot control herself. Enraged, the Prince attempts to ruin Nikolai through lawsuits, and meanwhile tries to marry Alyosha to a wealthy family. Nikolai, in turn, disowns Natasha. Whether he will forgive her is a recurring issue in the novel.

In the midst of the Prince’s legal battles and matrimonial contrivances, he surprises Natasha, Alyosha, and Ivan by calling on them unannounced and giving his blessing to a marriage between Natasha and Alyosha. Natasha is elated, but Nikolai does not trust the Prince and thinks it is a trap. Soon, Natasha herself is upset because Alyosha mysteriously stops coming to visit her.
The story then returns to the matter of the old man at whose address Ivan lives. The old man’s granddaughter, Yelena (aka Nellie), came to Ivan’s apartment to collect some books that were hers. Yelena is a poor and sickly little girl. She is suspicious of Ivan and reluctant to answer his questions about her life. Ivan follows her to her home where he witnesses her guardian berate and threaten her. After a chance meeting with an old school friend—now a corrupt government official—Ivan learns that Yelena is enslaved by her guardian and (presumably) prostituted. Ivan uses his friend’s influence to rescue Yelena from her vile pimp. Ivan cares for Yelena in his apartment. She comes to trust him and tells him the story of her life—a story with remarkable similarities to what is taking place between Natasha’s family and the Prince’s family.

Meanwhile, is has become evident that Alyosha no longer loves Natasha. Instead, he has fallen in love with Katya, the heiress whom the Prince wanted Alyosha to marry. The Prince’s conniving eventually wins and Natasha is left alone. But the Prince’s exploitation goes deeper than this, deeper than any of them suspect, though it’s all known in the end.

Pros As usual with a Dostoevsky novel, emotion is portrayed so intensely as to make the reader physically feel it. All of the characters seem to approach madness at one time or another. And there are moments of profound insight. For example, after Nellie insults Nikolai, Ivan runs after him to try to console him, and Nikolai says “They say that the well-fed cannot understand the hungry, but I would add that the hungry do not always understand the hungry.” Though this story takes place in Russia in another age, the human nature on display is the same throughout cultures and eras. Like Natasha, many are overcome by the rush of falling in love and make decisions based on that rush despite knowing how those decisions will ultimately make them suffer. And as with Ivan, sobriety and virtue are sometimes insufficient, and if relied on in themselves they may leave one cheated.

Cons At times, the story relies on implausible coincidences as a means of giving the reader necessary background information. One example of this is when Ivan follows Yelena to her home and chances to hear her drunken guardian yell details of Yelena’s life to onlookers. In doing so, she answers many of the questions Ivan had had about Yelena. Also, the book overuses the literary device of creating anticipation in the reader by having a character in dialogue say something like “all will become clear soon!” And often what soon follows is not very clarifying. Though Dostoevsky’s stories are filled with frenetic passion, this book more than others has several scenes where the passion is beyond anything realistic. In fact, it’s often melodramatic. For example, the meeting between Katya and Natasha is tear-strewn and full of professions of love and sisterhood between the two women—this though they are rivals for the same man, had never met each other until then, and would likely never meet each other again. Also, it is hard to see the motivation for Ivan’s tireless attempts to comfort and please Nellie and Natasha though they do very little for him in return. And, it is hard to feel much sympathy for any of the characters since they appear so fundamentally self-absorbed and listless. Natasha does nothing with her life except stay in her apartment and wait for either Ivan or Alyosha to visit her. Ivan does little but visit people for the sake of Natasha and Nellie. Also, though there are hints that Ivan never stopped loving Natasha, he as narrator never shows this love except in the form of platonic friendship. For a book so full of passion, his is notably absent. In sum, this novel is more myopic than Dostoevsky’s later works—it concentrates on the central plot to such an extent that it seems the rest of the world does not exist. This makes the book less realistic than his later novels. And some things are never explained, such as why Ivan wrote the narrative from his death bed, or why he and Natasha could not marry in the end.
Very good story, just way to short