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The Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881) "White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, Belye nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator.
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story “White Nights” tells the tragic tale of a lonesome, unnamed narrator as he winds his way through his dreary, isolated life in St. Petersburg.
Dostoevsky’s 1848 “White Nights” is a short story that asks a simple set of existential questions: Is love possible, even temporarily? What is the human capacity for happiness?
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love.
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In his feuilletons, Dostoevsky embraced this narrative figure, employing the wity, half-ironic voice of the chronicler to conduct a withering commen-tary on the self-censorship of meaningful speech and action in Petersburg, the imperial city of private “circles” [“кружки”] and public silences.
362 quotes from White Nights: ‘But how could you live and have no story to tell?’.
In his feuilletons, Dostoevsky embraced this narrative figure, employing the witty, half-ironic voice of the chronicler to conduct a withering commen-tary on the self-censorship of meaningful speech and action in Petersburg, the imperial city of private “circles” [“кружки”] and public silences.
