Summary
Wretched People is the first book of the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, which he wrote over nine months between 1844 and 1845. The book was first published in 1846.
Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors, Wretched People are written in the form of letters to two main characters: the clerk Makar Devuškin and the poor girl Varenjka Dobroselova. The novel depicts the life of poor people, their relationship with the rich and poverty in general, frequent themes of naturalism in literature.
Poor people has an epistolary form, that is, it is written in the form of letters. With such a literary style, Dostoevsky tried to enter more simply into the spiritual world of his heroes.
In that book, the types of characters that will occupy the writer throughout his work will appear:
- a city official who cannot reconcile with his humiliating position in society,
- a good and unhappy girl,
- loners and
- dreamers
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