The Eternal Husband

Resumen del libro

The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings.
This remarkably edgy and suspenseful tale shows that, despite being better known for his voluminous and sprawling novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky was a master of the more tightly-focused form of the novella.
"The Eternal Husband" may, in fact, constitute his most classically-shaped composition, with his most devilish plot: a man answers a late-night knock on the door to find himself in a tense and puzzling confrontation with the husband of a former lover--but it isn't clear if the husband knows about the affair. What follows is one of the most beautiful and piercing considerations ever written about the dualities of love: a dazzling psychological duel between the two men over knowledge they may or may not share, bringing them both to a shattering conclusion.

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Biografía del autor

Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievsky (Moscú, 1821- San Petersburgo, 1881) es uno de los mejores novelistas rusos de la historia. Educado por un padre alcohólico y déspota, tras la temprana muerte de su madre, estudió en la Escuelade Ingenieros de San Petersburgo. En 1849 fue condenado a muerte por colaborar con grupos liberales, sin embargo fue indultado horas antes de la ejecución. Sus escritos, extremadamente minuciosos, son profundos análisis psicológicos, tragedias de moralidad, apuntes de existencialismo, que diseccionan sobre la sociedad del siglo XIX. De entre sus obras destacan: Pobres gentes (1846), El doble (1846), Humillados y ofendidos (1861), Notas de invierno sobre impresiones de verano (1863), Memorias del subsuelo (1864), El jugador (1866), Crimen y castigo (1866), El idiota (1868), El eterno marido (1870) Los endemoniados (1871-1872), El adolescente (1875), Los hermanos Karamazov (1880).