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White Nights

Four summer nights, two strangers, and a hope that cannot hold.

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A lonely dreamer meets a young woman during a series of nights in St. Petersburg. Their brief connection draws out hopes of companionship and the pain of unequal affection.

F By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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A solitary young man who has spent years walking St Petersburg without speaking to anyone meets Nastenka on a canal bank during the white nights of summer. Over four evenings they tell each other everything, and he allows himself to believe the companionship will last.

One of Dostoyevsky’s earliest and gentlest works, it is a short book about loneliness, the stories we build around other people, and the difference between being loved and being needed for a while.

1. How the Dreamer substitutes an imagined life for a lived one, and what that costs him.
2. Why four nights of conversation can feel like more intimacy than years of ordinary acquaintance.
3. What Nastenka actually needs from him, and how that differs from what he hopes.
4. How the white nights themselves, light at midnight, hold the story’s brief unreality.
5. Why the final morning is written as gratitude rather than bitterness.
6. How much emotional ground Dostoyevsky covers in under a hundred pages.

Book details

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher

Lexicon Publishing

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Additional information

SKU

TL-SNHDPX9F

Category

Fiction