"White Nights" | |
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Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
Text available at Wikisource | |
Text available at Russian Wikisource | |
Original title | Белые ночи |
Translator | Constance Garnett |
Country | Russian Empire |
Language | Russian |
Genre(s) | first-person narrative, romance |
Publication | |
Published in | Otechestvennye Zapiski |
Publication type | Newspaper |
Publication date | 1848 |
Published in English | 1918 |
"White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, romanized: Belye nochi; original spelling Бѣлыя ночи, Beliya nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career.[1]
Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.