Résumé
Résumé de Les Nuits blanches et autres récits
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
Readers who love inner lives, city streets at night, tender love stories, dark comedy and sharp portraits of ordinary clerks, dreamers and outsiders, all gathered in one varied volume.
De quoi parle ce livre ?
Everyone in Petersburg wants to be seen, yet most of them hide. Nearly all the stories are set in a city of canals, damp snow, small rented rooms and clerks who count every coin. The people here are lonely, proud, anxious and often very funny. They long for gratitude, rank, love and a place among others. Let us begin on a canal bank at night, where a shy young man hears a girl crying.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A dreamer meets a weeping girlFree
- 2Nastenka tells her story and hopes
- 3A spiteful man argues with the world
- 4Humiliation at a dinner for Zverkov
- 5Liza and the cruelty of a lecture
- 6A faint heart cannot bear its own joy
- 7Two small stories of calculation and ruin
- 8A boy falls in love and learns shame
- 9A miser in the corner and the shape of the book
Point clé 1 sur 9
A dreamer meets a weeping girl
White Nights begins as a diary. The speaker is twenty-six and has lived in Petersburg for eight years without knowing anyone. He knows the houses of Petersburg like friends, yet no one knows him.
On a late walk he sees a girl in a yellow hat crying at the canal railing. A drunken gentleman follows her, and the dreamer drives him off with his stick. They walk together, both shaking.
She asks one thing. He must not fall in love with her, because she wants only a friend. He swears at once, though the reader can guess how hard the promise will be.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about Les Nuits blanches et autres récits
What is White Nights about?
White Nights is a short story told by a lonely young dreamer in Petersburg. Over four evenings he befriends a girl named Nastenka, who is waiting for a man she loves. It is a tender story of friendship, hope and longing.
Is White Nights a love story?
It is a love story in the sense that a shy dreamer and a hopeful girl share four evenings and open their hearts to each other. Their feelings do not match, and the tale is about longing and kindness as much as romance.
Which story in the collection should I start with?
Start with White Nights. It has a clear story, warm dialogue and short, lively chapters, and it introduces the lonely dreamers who appear throughout the book. The other tales vary in mood, so you can read them in any order.