White Nights
A Sentimental Story from the Journal of a Dreamer • Published by Penguin
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About the Book
Written by legendary Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1848, White Nights represents an exceptionally profound, highly evocative, and intellectually rigorous examination of the human condition under the strain of chronic existential solitude. Rejecting comfortable, sentimentalized romantic tropes, Dostoyevsky maps the profound psychological, behavioral, and emotional architecture of the "Dreamer"—a protagonist who lives almost exclusively within his rich, subjective mindscapes, completely isolated fromSaint Petersburg's empirical reality. The book's visual presentation is defined by the iconic, minimalist Penguin Little Black Classics layout—featuring a stark black front cover cleanly bisected by a sharp white horizontal band enclosing the famous penguin logo, with the author's name 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky' in an elegant white sans-serif font at the top and the title 'White Nights' at the bottom above the class indicator 'No 118'. This stark geometric contrast operates as a powerful visual metaphor for systemic isolation, the dialectic of shadow and light, and the rigid boundaries separating subjective idealization from waking reality.
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| ISBN Reference | 9780241252086 (Pocket Classic) |
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| Publisher | Penguin Classics (Little Black Classics No. 118) |
| Book Category | Classics / World Literature |
| Key Features | Saint Petersburg White Nights setting, Dreamer Archetype Analysis, Little Black Classics layout, Psychological Realism |