Netochka Nezvanova
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| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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| Original title | Неточка Незванова |
| Translator | Jane Kentish |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1849 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 173 pp |
| Preceded by | The Double: A Petersburg Poem |
| Followed by | The Village of Stepanchikovo |
Netochka Nezvanova (Russian: Неточка Незванова) is an unfinished novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was originally intended as a large scale work in the form of a 'confession', but a background sketch of the eponymous heroine's childhood and adolescence is all that was completed and published. According to translator Jane Kentish, this first publication was intended as "no more than a prologue to the novel".[1] Dostoevsky began work on the novel in 1848 and the first completed section was published at the end of 1849. Further work was prevented by the author's arrest and exile to a Siberian detention camp for his part in the activities of the Petrashevsky Circle. After his return in 1859, Dostoyevsky never resumed work on Netochka Nezvanova, leaving this fragment forever incomplete.
Ann Dunnigan's American English translation of the novel was first published in 1972.
Plot
The story is about the sorrowful life of a young girl living in extreme poverty in Saint Petersburg, who ends up an orphan and is adopted by a wealthy upper-class family. When she meets her new stepsister, Katya, she instantly becomes infatuated with her and the two soon become inseparable. However, one day Katya is forced to leave to Moscow with her parents, and for the next eight years Netochka lives with Katya's older sister, who becomes her new mother figure. The story ends abruptly before the two girls reunite.
Footnotes
- ^ Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Netochka Nezvanova. Translated with an introduction by Jane Kentish. Penguin Books. 1985. ISBN 0-14-044455-6
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