White Nights (Dostoevsky)
White nights ( Russian Белые ночи ) (also bright nights ) is a novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky , which was first published in 1848 under the original title Белые ночи. Сентиментальный роман (Из воспоминаний мечтателя) (Russian for White Nights. A soulful novel (From a dreamer's memoir) ) appeared. It is about an outsider who meets a young woman with whom he falls in love and with whom he meets on four evenings.
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One night in Saint Petersburg, a young man meets a 17-year-old girl named Nastenka, crying. He speaks to her with pity, which leads to a friendship and, over the course of the following nights, a tender love.
They meet in the same place at the same time every night and talk about their lives so far. He tells her about his lonely life as a dreamer, she tells him about an unfulfilled love for a former lodger of her grandmother, with whom she wanted to run away at the time. However, he traveled to Moscow for a year and wanted to earn money first so that she could have a comfortable life as his wife. She is still longingly waiting for his promised return.
In the meantime, the young man and Nastenka get to know each other better and better and finally love. But as his love grows stronger, she faces a decision between the two men.
The novel ends with the return of Nastenka's admirer, whom she ultimately chooses. Despite this disappointment, the young man promises to keep their friendship going.
Adaptations
Film adaptations
The story was filmed in 1957 in the Italian-French feature film White Nights ( Le Notti Bianche ) by Luchino Visconti . Further adaptations:
- 1934 Peterburgskaya natch (French: La Nuit de Saint-Petersbourg / Nuits blanches), Grigori Lwowitsch Roschal and Wera Pawlowna Strojewa , USSR
- 1959: Belye Nochi (Белые ночи), Ivan Alexandrowitsch Pyrjew , USSR
- 1962: Le Notti Bianche , TV, Italy
- 1964: Bright Nights , TV, Germany
- 1971: Four Nights of a Dreamer ( Quatre Nuits d'un Rêveur ), Robert Bresson , France
- 1973: Noites Brancas TV, Brazil
- 1975: L'Assassin musicien , Benoît Jacquot , France
- 1992: Belye Nochi , Russia
- 2001: Belye Noci , CZ
- 2005: White Nights , USA
- 2009: Le Notti Bianche , Italy
- 2009: The Seducer , USA
- 2011: Venice Shore Nights , USA
- 2016: Белые ночи (White Nights), Tatjana Voronetzkaja + Andreij Bogatirew, Russia
Opera
- 1929: White Nights ( Eric Paul Stekel )
literature
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: White Nights. A sensitive novel (From the memories of a dreamer) , translated by Hermann Röhl, Anaconda, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86647-181-8 .
Web links
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- ↑ [ http://d-nb.info/579671232 Insel-Verlag 1924]
- ^ Piper 1991
- ↑ Encyclocine.com accessed November 13, 2014.
- ↑ Petersburg night on kinomusorka.ru ( memento of November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on November 13, 2014.