The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
12 hrs. 12 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrator
Oleg Isaev
Narrator
Oleg Isaev
Description
“Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants” — Dostoevsky’s “second debut” of the post–Siberian exile period. Returning to literature after nearly a decade-long break, Dostoevsky set himself a serious task: “...to write a novel better than ‘Poor Folk’” (a letter to A. E. Wrangel dated March 23, 1856) and placed great hopes on it: “Of course, this novel has the greatest shortcomings, but what I am sure of, as if it were an axiom, is that at the same time it has great merits, and that it is my best work; in it I put my soul, my flesh and blood. On it are founded all my best hopes; and, above all, the strengthening of my literary name” (a letter to M. M. Dostoevsky dated May 9, 1859). Yet “Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants” was received below its worth. The “public” accepted the novel rather coldly. For example, N. A. Nekrasov said after reading it: “Dostoevsky is all there in it—you can’t write anything more.”
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