Humiliated and Insulted

Humiliated and Insulted ( Original title: rus: . Униженные и оскорбленные ) was the first novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky published after his eight-year exile to Siberia in 1861 in the St. Petersburg monthly magazine Vremya. The novel is about the futile love relationships in a social hierarchy that is determined by differentiated social interests.

The city plight of Saint Petersburg is the location of the plot. The novel tells the fictional story of the writer Ivan Petrovich, who with his debut was a great success, but now disillusioned with life, humiliated and insulted, told in the hospital the love experiences of his last year of life, sometimes banal and utterly sentimental, yet stylistically excellent.

Action

Ivan Petrovich, called Vanya, the narrator loves selflessly his childhood companion, Natalia, who has an intimate relationship with Alyosha, the son of Prince Pyotr Alexandrovich Walkowski. This, an unscrupulous aristocrat, seeks to have Katerina Fyodorovna ( called Katja ) as daughter- in order to enrich themselves at the dowry. Vanya is concerned about the poor orphan Nelly, who lives with the family of the estate manager Ichmenew and their biological father of Prince Walkowski landlord is - what he seeks to conceal. Nelly dies terminally ill to " nervous fever ". Natalia leaves Alyosha, of the rich Katja selected according to the will of the Father as his wife, and finally take Vanya and Natasha forever leave of each other.

Stage adaptation

  • Frank Castorf Humiliated and Insulted, premiered at the Vienna Festival on 28 May 2001, Berlin premiere on 12 October 2001

Quote

" The more infected and important is the human generosity, the more at widerwärtigstem selfishness in it."

" This churning always re a pain and the self- willows me it was quite understandable; yet it is a pleasure Offended many and offended that the injustice of their fate cursed by fate and conscious. "

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