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Title	:	The Gentle Spirit
Author	:	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 48 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2004 by Kessinger Publishing (first published 1876)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Short Stories. Literature. Russian Literature

The Gentle Spirit

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Paperback | Pages: 48 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 5918 Users | 473 Reviews

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In Hindi, there floats an endearing term – ‘meethi churi’. Its literal translation in English is ‘sweet knife’. And ladies and gentlemen, as you might have rightly guessed, it is fervently used, jocularly or sarcastically, for a person who hands us, our sharpest criticisms, soaked in such honeyed words that we actually look forward to the slow slaying.

If there was a school, teaching its pupils to sharpen these knives and slice them victoriously under any skin, anywhere in the world, its Principal most surely be D.

What can one possibly convey in 48 pages chronicling the life of an ordinary forty-one years old scrupulous pawnbroker with a poor wife, all of sixteen? Apparently a lot. That in poverty throbs resentment, in kindness, pride; that a kiss of gratitude is forgotten in the arms of prosperity, a flame of love, extinguished in the rain of jealousy; a helping hand is not without smirk, a sleeping mind is not without doubt; the fear of rarefied high is no more nauseous than the fear of dusty lows; the resolve to kill is the same as the resolve to live.

I remember faint, selective outlines of the teachers who were nice to me. But I remember the face, the eyes, the jawline, the gait, the twitch, the frown, basically everything of the handful of teachers who turned the best view-finders of my life. So what if it came amid torrents of face-offs and inundating numbness?

’For, you know, there’s a greatness of soul in it – to be able to say, “Though I am on the edge of the abyss, yet Goethe’s grand words are radiant with light.”

Yes, greatness of soul, of D.

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Original Title:	Кроткая
ISBN:	141910134X (ISBN13: 9781419101342)
Edition Language:	English

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So, remember a few months ago when I published a review of Dostoevskys novella White Nights? The one where I fawned over the hero and his unselfish concern for the woman he loved? A Gentle Spirit* is almost the exact opposite of that story.It concerns a pawnbroker (unnamed throughout the story) who marries one of his more frequent customers. She (also unnamed) is sixteen years old, an orphan, and living in abject poverty with her two abusive aunts. He is forty-one, not rich but well-off, and the

Same with the few other writings by the immense Dostoyevsky I've read so far: simple - too simple! - and easy, quick to read, but after having finished it, it remains in my head for a long, long time. There must be this undeniable depth that - to my shame - I haven't felt nor penetrated yet.

I demand a list of the psychological disorders Dostoyevsky's characters are diagnosed with.

In Hindi, there floats an endearing term meethi churi. Its literal translation in English is sweet knife. And ladies and gentlemen, as you might have rightly guessed, it is fervently used, jocularly or sarcastically, for a person who hands us, our sharpest criticisms, soaked in such honeyed words that we actually look forward to the slow slaying.If there was a school, teaching its pupils to sharpen these knives and slice them victoriously under any skin, anywhere in the world, its Principal

"But now the rooms stand empty again and I'm alone once again. There's the pendulum ticking, it doesn't care, it doesn't feel sorry for anyone. There's noone - that's the awful thing!(...)What are your laws to me now? What do I need with your customs, your ways, your life, your govrnment, your faith? Let your judges judge me, let them take me to court, to your public court, and I will say that I acknowledge nothing. The judge will shout: 'Silence, officer!' And I will cry out to him: 'What power

Reading Russian literature is a bit like listening to certain bands - now and again I do it for the first time in ages and wonder why I bother with anything else. This short story is fantastic, a perfect recreation of its narrator's crazed, despairing state of mind. He's a pawnbroker (this little parallel with Crime & Punishment perhaps being one of the reasons why the story was chosen for a Little Black Classic edition), who quickly courts and marries a gullible girl, the meek one of the

This is quite out of usual reading genre, but Dostoyevsky has some appeal, and I have a copy of Crime and Punishment lined up for the future, so I thought I would polish off this short story in the meantime.So the story is basically the inner thoughts shared with the reader by a middle aged pawn-broker whose young wife has just committed suicide. Hard to explore more detail without spoiling the story for anyone who plans to read it, but there are multiple thoughts the man shares - was he to