Novella · 1870
The Eternal Husband
Вечный муж
A darkly comic tale of two men bound together by the same dead woman.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881 · Russia As an Amazon Associate, The Put’ earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you.
Alexei Velchaninov, a restless middle-aged man stuck in a sweltering St Petersburg summer, is visited by a stranger in mourning: Pavel Pavlovich, the widower of a woman Velchaninov once knew well. What begins as an awkward reunion becomes a strange, tense duel between two men who cannot leave each other alone.
Part psychological thriller, part black comedy, it is one of Dostoevsky's shortest and most underrated works — a compact study of jealousy, guilt and the roles we play.
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