The Landlady (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The landlady is a novella by the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.

It was first published in 1847 in the Russian journal " Annals of the Fatherland ". It is about a hopeless love of a solitary dreamer. In contrast to the previous novel Poor people stayed with the landlady of the success. The literary critic Vissarion Belinsky commented negatively to this work, after he had praised the novel Poor Folk extraordinary.

The story has also been published under the translations The landlady, The young woman, Saints landscape, the housewife and the unknown in German translation.

Edits

2013 led the Volksbühne am Rosa- Luxembourg -Platz in Berlin, a stage adaptation of the story of Frank Castorf on. Castorf has already set up Dostoevsky's novels Humiliated and Insulted, The Demons, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Gambler for the stage.

Expenditure

• Fyodor M. Dostoevsky: All narratives. Novel in nine letters. Mr. Prochartschin. A young woman ( the landlady ). Polsunkoff. A weak heart. The strange woman and the husband under the bed. An honest thief. Christmas and wedding. A little hero. The crocodile. Bobok. The Gentle. Dream of a Ridiculous Man. With Notes. Zurich: Piper, 1984 ISBN 3-492-00638-8.