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...SHORT NOVELS OF DOSTOEVSKY-With an Introduction by Thomas Mann -Dial Press...
Some of the most provocative recent writing is contained in a 14-page preface by Novelist Thomas Mann to the reprint of six short novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Few 19th-Century novelists said as much in a whole lifework as did Fyodor Dostoevsky in his short novels. Few 20th-century critics could say, at book length, as much about Dostoevsky as Mann says in the introductory essay in which the great German brilliantly examines the great Russian, and, for the first time, movingly acknowledges his debt...
Most of Dostoevsky's short novels have been out of print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...
...exercises for the purpose of giving their minds as full and as varied a development as possible." In the end he succeeded. Talleyrand, Mme. de Staël and Robert Owen came to learn from Pestalozzi. Philosopher Fichte introduced Pestalozzi's progressive education to Germany, and there Horace Mann and Calvin Stowe picked it up, to bring...
They Wish to be Loved. That the Germans will be allowed to scatter, Mann does not believe. He hopes (without much confidence) that a world state may develop and that the German, who never could fit into the pattern of the nations, will become a peaceable citizen of the world...