02972cam a22003853u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000360011324500250014924600740017426400510024830000470029933600260034633700260037233800360039850000310043450501840046550800890064952014570073853400500219565300480224565300550229370000510234870000490239970000460244870000300249485600430252499900190256776662UtSlPG20260610134756.0mcr n260607r20251907utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7ade2iso639-1 4aPG1 aDostoyevsky, Fyodor,d1821-188110aSämtliche Werke 201 aSämtliche Werke 20 :  Aus dem Dunkel der Grossstadt : Acht Novellen 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-08-100 aAus dem Dunkel der Großstadt -- Herr Prochartschin -- Polsunkoff -- Der ehrliche Dieb -- Eine dumme Geschichte -- Die Kleine -- Bobock -- Der Traum eines lächerlichen Menschen.  aAlexander Bauer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net  a"Sämtliche Werke 20 : Aus dem Dunkel der Großstadt : Acht Novellen" by Dostoyevsky is a collection of novellas written in the mid to late 19th century. The volume gathers eight Petersburg-centered tales of urban alienation and moral struggle, spotlighting clerks, students, and other castaways as they battle conscience, poverty, and the pressures of a rapidly modernizing city.  The opening of the collection frames Dostoyevsky as the poet of the modern metropolis: an introductory essay contrasts the city’s feverish experimentation with the steadier life of the countryside and sets St. Petersburg as a tragic, artificial crucible of Russian destiny; a foreword then outlines the eight included works and explains the title choice. Immediately after, the first novella begins with the famous voice of an unnamed former civil servant in his “corner,” a self-lacerating, contradictory narrator who calls himself sick and spiteful. He recalls petty cruelties at his desk, admits that hyper-consciousness paralyzes action, and dissects the perverse “pleasure” found in humiliation, pain, and even toothache. He contrasts impulsive “men of action” with his own mouse-like inertia, invokes the “stone wall” of natural law, and launches a fierce attack on rational egoism and utopian schemes, insisting that humans will sometimes choose against their own interest simply to assert freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cMünchen: Piper, 1907  aRussian fiction -- Translations into German  aShort stories, Russian -- Translations into German1 aFilosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich,d1872-19401 aMerezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich,d1865-19411 aMoeller van den Bruck, Arthur,d1876-19251 aRahsin, E. K.,d1886-196640uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76662  c117387d117387