"Life is a gift." Dostoevsky celebrates the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth and re-reads the classics together

The past Singles' Day marked the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Dostoevsky, the originator of modernist literature. The People's Literature Publishing House has launched a small series of books " Dostoevsky Novella Classics "Dostoevsky Novella Classics", and it is reported that the seven-volume "Dostoevsky Anthology" is also about to be published, and most of the tomes such as "Crime and Punishment" are in it. On the occasion of the two-hundredth anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth, Yilin Publishing House also launched the 2021 blockbuster series "Dostoevsky Selected Collections (Five)".

Dostoevsky

Re-acquaint yourself with the Guru

His name was Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). He was a Russian writer, thinker, and philosopher. In 1849, he was arrested and exiled by the Tsarist government for his revolutionary activities. His life has been bumpy and arduous, and his works have the characteristics of extreme complexity, contradiction and depth, reflecting the wandering and anxiety, existence and absurdity, suffering and faith, sinking and salvation in the process of human beings moving towards modernity. It has been commented that Tolstoy represented the breadth of Russian literature, while Dostoevsky represented the depth of Russian literature.

Dostoevsky's major works include: the novel "Crime and Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov", "The Insulted and Damaged", "Idiot", "The Devil", and the novella "Basement Notes" and "White Night".

New book by Yilin Publishing House

Writer Yu Hua once said: "The first time I read "Crime and Punishment", I was blown up at the age of 20. ” The writer Stephen Zweig said: "There are two people who can have a profound impact on the literature and culture of our time: Kierkegaard, the originator of existentialism, and Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist. ”

Recently, the famous writer Cao Wenxuan, the Russian literary translator Liu Wenfei, and the Professor of Russian Literature at Peking University Zhao Guilian explored Dostoevsky's "small universe", understood the significance of the road signs of Dostoevsky's works, and understood Dostoevsky's influence on modern literature.

The launch of the new book

Almost every one of Dostoevsky's works provides a world literature gallery with a distinctive, thought-provoking classic image. The reader is often not only immersed, but also "lives" in the protagonist's world, and then finds familiar people, close people, and even themselves in the characters' speech and behavior, inner activities. In Dostoevsky's novels, everyone has a mission to reveal the incredible and difficult truth of life, and at the heart of this truth is the mystery of human nature.

Four works Four personalities entangled

Toshi famously said, "The devil fights with God, and the battlefield is in the hearts of the people." The People's Literature Publishing House has newly launched the "Dostoevsky Novella Classics" series, showing four "battlefields of the human heart" with "Poor People", "Double Personality", "Basement Notes" and "Gambler".

"The Poor Man" is not only Dostoevsky's debut work, but also his famous work, with this novel written "with enthusiasm, almost with tears", which shone in the Russian literary world and won the praise of "The New Gogol"; In the companion piece of The Poor Man, The Dual Personality, Dostoevsky introduced split personality into literature for the first time;

New book by the People's Literature Publishing House "The Gambler", which set a record for Dostoevsky's creative speed, has more autobiographical components in both the description of love and the details of gambling. The gambling mania had controlled Dostoevsky for a long time, and after writing "The Gambler", he completely washed his hands of gold and left a novel that wrote about the flower of gambling evil; The Crypt Notes is recognized as Dostoevsky's signpost. This Russian version of Hamlet, with its anti-heroism and anti-rationality, directly influenced the Creation of the Fall of the French existentialist master Camus, which was called the "peak of Dostoevsky's literary career" by the French writer André Gide.

In the inner struggles of the "poor", "double man", "gambler" and "basement man", it is not difficult to find Dostoevsky's understanding of life. What does the ideal life form look like? As he said in a letter to his brother: "Life is a gift, life is happiness, and every minute can become a century of happiness." Now, if you change your life, you will be born again in a new form. ”

Red Star News reporters saw:

The translator of "The Poor" Xu Leiran is a well-known editor of the People's Literature Publishing House, translating works by Pushkin, Turgenev and others. Professor Zang Zhonglun, the translator of "Double Personality", was a professor at Peking University before his death, translated a large number of works by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, and co-translated Herzen's "Past Events and Caprice" with Mr. Ba Jin; The translator of "The Gambler" is Professor Liu Zongci from the University of Foreign Chinese in Beijing, translating novels by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Rybakov and other writers; Professor Liu Wenfei, the translator of "Basement Notes", is a famous translator who was awarded the Russian Friendship Medal. Professor Zhao Guilian, who wrote the preface to "Dostoevsky's Classic Of Psychological Novellas", is from Peking University and has studied Dostoevsky for decades.

"Dostoevsky Novella Classic" can be used as an entry-level option for reading Dostoevsky. On the occasion of the two-hundredth anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth, in addition to this small series of books, the seven-volume "Dostoevsky Anthology" is about to be published, and large works such as Crime and Punishment are in it.

Red Star News reporter | Chen Mou Publishing House

Edited | Duan Xueying

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