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Aug 20, 2022 · White Nights is a melancholy trip… It is an elegy of solitude… White nights… Sad days… A strange anguish had tormented me since early morning. I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone, that everyone was shrinking away from me, avoiding me.
Jun 7, 2017 · On May 21, 1979, thousands of members of San Francisco ’s predominantly gay Castro District community took to the streets to protest the lenient sentence received by Dan White for the murders...
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Olga Shartse (Translator) 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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Brief Summary: “White Nights” tells the story of Nastenka, a young woman living in St. Petersburg, who encounters the narrator in the midst of a white summer night. Together, they spend four nights sharing their thoughts and desires, but Nastenka still awaits an absent love, the stranger.
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? And, how...
"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. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He ...
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Nov 3, 2023 · 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.
