000			02966cam a22003853u 4500
001			76662
003			UtSlPG
005			20260610134756.0
006			m
007			cr n
008			260607r20251907utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d
040			_aUtSlPG
041		7	_ade _2iso639-1
050		4	_aPG
100	1		_aDostoyevsky, Fyodor, _d1821-1881
245	1	0	_aSämtliche Werke 20
246	1		_aSämtliche Werke 20 : Aus dem Dunkel der Grossstadt : Acht Novellen
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-08-10
505	0		_aAus dem Dunkel der Großstadt -- Herr Prochartschin -- Polsunkoff -- Der ehrliche Dieb -- Eine dumme Geschichte -- Die Kleine -- Bobock -- Der Traum eines lächerlichen Menschen.
508			_aAlexander Bauer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520			_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.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cMünchen: Piper, 1907
653			_aRussian fiction -- Translations into German
653			_aShort stories, Russian -- Translations into German
700	1		_aFilosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich, _d1872-1940
700	1		_aMerezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich, _d1865-1941
700	1		_aMoeller van den Bruck, Arthur, _d1876-1925
700	1		_aRahsin, E. K., _d1886-1966
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76662
999			_c117387 _d117387