Por: Fédor Dostoievski

White nights by Fédor Dostoyevsky translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett in 1918, is a work in the public domain

Editing and graphic design for ebook by Cigana Publicações, 2023

White Nights is the work of the Russian Dostoyevsky that brings him closest to literary romanticism, it was written in 1848, before his arrest and his so-called conversion to orthodox Catholicism, as put by some theorists of his life.

As the central character of White Nights is a dreamer who falls in love in St. Petersburg. This nameless character wanders wandering through the "white night" of the cold Russian city.

The phenomenon "White Night" refers to a climatic condition in Europe in which, even when the sun goes down, the nights remain clear, as if creating an atmosphere of magic and dreams, giving the sensation of being "daydreaming". Thus, it seems that the phenomenon seems to have given the inspiration for the author's text.

Dostoyevsky wrote other important works and White Nights is not his main work, but it is not an irrelevant production. His curriculum, besides the novels has the titles: Poor People, The Double, The Landlady, Netochka Nezvanova, Village of Stiepantchikov and its Inhabitants, Humiliated and Offended, Memories from the House of the Dead, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Player, The Idiot, The Eternal Husband, The Demons, The Adolescent, The Brothers Karamazov and The Prince's Dream.