I picked this up as a prelude to reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. I believe the quotation which concludes the review posted by TomcatMurr is key to that work. Sincerely hope this is correct, because Chernyshevsky's novel is spectacularly badly written, IMHO. Dynex Gigabit Pci Adapter Driver Xp. The plot is preposterous, the characters absurd, the authorial asides self-parodic.

Ebook (ePUB), by Nikolai Chernyshevsky & Michael R. Can compete with What Is to Be Done? In its effect on human lives and its power to make history. What is to be done. Chernyshevsky’s 1863 novel What Is to Be Done? It was due to the novel’s huge success that Lenin used the title in 1902.

Only comparable book I have read is Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters. It did send me back to chapter 4 of Nabokov's The Gift, which is presented as the protagonist's published biography of Chernyshevsky. A hilarious hatchet job which I gather offended Russians on both the left and right at the time, but entirely warranted if this novel represents the fruit of C's mind and art. Korg Triton Le Boje Download Youtube. Beauty is life; beautiful is that being in which we see life as it should be according to our conceptions; beautiful is the object which expresses, or reminds us of life. The Aesthetic Relations Between Art and Reality. Vera Pavlovna lives under the thumb of her gorgon-like mother, who wants to marry her off to the owner of the tenement block where they reside.

Vera has aspirations of her own, and makes friends with the tutor of her kid brother, a medical student named Lopukhov. Through subterfuge, and in order to save her from a loveless marriage and lifelong servitude to her family – the usual lot of women of her class- he marries her, snatching her out from under the nose of the other suitor and her mother. They set up house together, in separate rooms, and Vera feels liberated from what she calls ‘the cellar’, signifying her life and expectations before her marriage. Vera sets up a small business as a seamstress, and with the help of some other girls, the business takes off and expands; they open branches, and run the operation as a cooperative, with all the girls living together and sharing the profits. Soon, she falls in love with Lopukhov’s friend and classmate, Kirsanov. Lopukhov, realising that he is in the way, and that his marriage to Vera was only in order to help her achieve her independence, removes himself from the scene, with the assistance and under the guidance of an extraordinary man, Rakhmetov, so as not to block their happiness.

Eventually, Kirsanov and Vera marry, and all live happily ever after. Despite its rather unprepossessing plot and premise, this 1863 novel, now all but forgotten except by die-hard Russophiles, was probably the single most important literary work in Russian of the second half of the 19th century. The revolutionary Plekhanov said it was the most important work in Russia since the introduction of the printing press; Lenin knew the book by heart, and borrowed the title for one of his own key texts; Marx called Chernyshevsky the only original mind of contemporary economists; and copies of the journal in which it first appeared were regarded as precious heirlooms for generations of Russians.