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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (Oneworld Classics)

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (Oneworld Classics)
By Fyodor Dostoevsky

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In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. His impressions on what he saw, "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," were first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya (Time), the periodical he edited.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #77229 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-06-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 160 pages

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Text: English, Russian (translation)

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) is the author of The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and Notes from Underground, often described as a founding work of existentialism.

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Gripping portrait.5
Vivid impressions of the author during his travel all over Europe in the second half of the 19th century. His main targets are France (Paris) and England (London).
He gives us a biting and cynical portrait of the French: parvenus and bourgeois who make a mockery of 'liberté, égalité, fraternité'.
In England, he is confronted with child prostitution in London's Haymarket: a most terrible and moving scene of a child of only six, black and blue beaten, barefoot, who tries to lure him to have sex with her. On the contrary, the Anglican clerics preach a religion for the wealthy and don't even hide it. A most pregnant portrait of the fat and the meagre.
A book to recommend.

Capitalism critcism4
In this book Dostoevsky seems to take his time to criticize capitalism ( or so I find), takes as an example French society,
criticizes the accumulation of money and the adulation of god money (Baal), the servilism that comes with it, analyzes the way marital relations are, that is in relation with capitalism (Bribri and Ma biche ).

I found it pretty good, although it requires you to have knowledge of many things of the time it was written, (for instance can you remember who is Guizot?) and be used to the style of Dostoevsky.