The Insulted and Humiliated -

Fiódor Dostoiévski

Oneworld Classics

2008

450 páginas

15h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781847490452

Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is "not at all inferior to the other great masterpieces," and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, and, above all, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. Found at the center of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager, and a depraved aristocrat who foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction.