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Den Sagtmodige
Den sagtmodige (også kendt under titlen Krotkaja) er blevet kaldt en af de mest gribende fortællinger om menneskelig fortvivlelse som nogensinde er skrevet. Kritikerne i samtiden skrev at “en sådan fortælling ikke ville gå upåagtet hen i noget lands litteratur”.
For Knut Hamsun var Dostojevskij “den vældigste af de russiske giganter” og Krotkaja beskrev han som “en ganske lille bog, men den er stor for os alle, uopnåeligt stor”.
For Knut Hamsun var Dostojevskij “den vældigste af de russiske giganter” og Krotkaja beskrev han som “en ganske lille bog, men den er stor for os alle, uopnåeligt stor”.
86 pages, Paperback
Published February 11, 2022
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
(Russian)
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.
(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.
(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)
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March 6, 2022
Selv om den lille kortroman, der næsten kun er en novelle, ikke står distancen mod Dostojevskijs store romaner, så er den inden for sin ramme fremragende. Den korte fortælling favner ganske mange af Dostojevskijs indsigter i den ulykkelige menneskelige tilstand, som han har udfoldet i større detaljer og dybder i andre værker. Og den er en demonstration af hans sublime fortælleteknik.
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August 24, 2025
Mega god og mega frustrerende bog man sidder og skriger af hovedpersonen hele vejen igennem at han skal tage sig sammen
October 11, 2024
Nu har jeg gået et par dage og tænkt over den her bog. Og den vender og drejer sig stadig i knolden.
Jeg synes heldigvis ikke, at Dostojevskijs skrivestil er så svær at komme ind i, som jeg frygtede. Nogle sætninger skal lige læses flere gange for helt at forstå hele betydningen, men det er så også, hvad det er.
Jeg har altid haft et liiiidt anstrengt forhold til fortællerkommentarer i bøger, men med bogens hensigt fungerer det egentlig. Både fordi det er en lang, rodet tankerække (som i øvrigt er fremstillet meget realistisk), og fordi det lige "tvinger" læseren til at tage stilling/ blive en del af historien igen.
Sidstnævnte kan der godt være brug for, da noget af fortællingen fremstår lidt kedelig med al informationen om vores hovedperson. Tempoet i historien er ret lavt og bremses konstant.
MEN!
Så sker der pludselig et eller andet, som sendte en snigende klaustrofobisk fornemmelse ind over mig, og i del to tager historien helt en drejning, hvor der kommer meget fokus på det menneskelige sind (og det bliver endda både beskrevet direkte og observerende). Det er virkelig interessant at drage paralleller mellem vores to karakterer og følge en udvikling her.
Så alt i alt må jeg sige, at den her lille historie virkelig kommer i mål med det, den vil. Og trods den korte længde fremstår historien helstøbt og kommer fint i mål uden at føles uafrundet.
Jeg har ikke helt mod på at kaste mig ud i de længere fortællinger endnu, men jeg vil klart dyrke Dostojevskijs forfatterskab mere.
Jeg synes heldigvis ikke, at Dostojevskijs skrivestil er så svær at komme ind i, som jeg frygtede. Nogle sætninger skal lige læses flere gange for helt at forstå hele betydningen, men det er så også, hvad det er.
Jeg har altid haft et liiiidt anstrengt forhold til fortællerkommentarer i bøger, men med bogens hensigt fungerer det egentlig. Både fordi det er en lang, rodet tankerække (som i øvrigt er fremstillet meget realistisk), og fordi det lige "tvinger" læseren til at tage stilling/ blive en del af historien igen.
Sidstnævnte kan der godt være brug for, da noget af fortællingen fremstår lidt kedelig med al informationen om vores hovedperson. Tempoet i historien er ret lavt og bremses konstant.
MEN!
Så sker der pludselig et eller andet, som sendte en snigende klaustrofobisk fornemmelse ind over mig, og i del to tager historien helt en drejning, hvor der kommer meget fokus på det menneskelige sind (og det bliver endda både beskrevet direkte og observerende). Det er virkelig interessant at drage paralleller mellem vores to karakterer og følge en udvikling her.
Så alt i alt må jeg sige, at den her lille historie virkelig kommer i mål med det, den vil. Og trods den korte længde fremstår historien helstøbt og kommer fint i mål uden at føles uafrundet.
Jeg har ikke helt mod på at kaste mig ud i de længere fortællinger endnu, men jeg vil klart dyrke Dostojevskijs forfatterskab mere.
May 17, 2024
Ville lige prøve mig frem med noget Dostojevskij og tænkte ‘Den sagtmodige’ var en god start og er tænker helt klart jeg kommer til at læse mere fra ham i fremtiden. Ville dog ønske man så mere fra den unge piges perspektiv men den er stadig fantastisk.
June 5, 2024
This book was honestly incredibly hard for me to comprehend…
Mainly- it reminded A LOT of Virginia Woolfs very short novella ‘The Legacy’ and if I should choose between the two I would prob only pick Woolfs.
Although I enjoyed the core reflections that this book contains:) It was a very realistic depiction of grief and confusion and well- life!
I also just enjoyed the storyline of Lukerja and the main charecter - such an interesting way to show a DEEPLY dysfunctional relationship, and honsestly a super new way to view an age gap. It was amazingly written with just the general confusion and disbelief the maincharecter goes through.
My main critique is the view of women- Lukerja is described as an animal, and there are - in general - a lot of VERY objectified views.
I do realize this was written in a time where it was normal for two people to be married and be 41 and 16 years old- but viewed in a modern context… that was gross:(
And
It was too long- like objectively- it dragged in the very start, without using the plot to express messages (like it does in the end).
And White Nights did some of these themes better:)
So I think around 3-4 stars🌟🌟
Mainly- it reminded A LOT of Virginia Woolfs very short novella ‘The Legacy’ and if I should choose between the two I would prob only pick Woolfs.
Although I enjoyed the core reflections that this book contains:) It was a very realistic depiction of grief and confusion and well- life!
I also just enjoyed the storyline of Lukerja and the main charecter - such an interesting way to show a DEEPLY dysfunctional relationship, and honsestly a super new way to view an age gap. It was amazingly written with just the general confusion and disbelief the maincharecter goes through.
My main critique is the view of women- Lukerja is described as an animal, and there are - in general - a lot of VERY objectified views.
I do realize this was written in a time where it was normal for two people to be married and be 41 and 16 years old- but viewed in a modern context… that was gross:(
And
It was too long- like objectively- it dragged in the very start, without using the plot to express messages (like it does in the end).
And White Nights did some of these themes better:)
So I think around 3-4 stars🌟🌟
June 19, 2022
Jeg ved faktisk ikke, hvad jeg skal synes om denne korte fortælling. Den Sagtmodige (også kendt under titlen Krotkaja) er blevet kaldt en af de mest gribende fortællinger om menneskelig fortvivlelse, som nogensinde er skrevet. Det er helt klart en fortælling om fortvivelse, men jeg synes, at en del af Dostojevskijs andre fortællinger om samme menneskelige kondition er mere gribende, f.eks. Nellys og hendes mors fortvivelse i De Ydmygede og Sårede, som jeg læste umiddelbart før. Men ikke desto mindre er beskrivelsen af den efterladte ægtemands fortvivelse over hans unge kones selvmord i Den Sagtmodige et mesterligt psykologisk portræt. Måske er jeg blot blevet forvent, når jeg læser Dostojevskij?
September 3, 2024
Nu har jeg læst den her bog 2 gange og det var godt for jeg forstod den egentlig ikke ret godt første gang.
Den handler om en manipulerende og forvirret mand der ikke selv lægger mærke til at han mentalt torturerer sin meget unge kone indtil hun begår selvmord.
Jeg tror jeg havde svært ved at læse en bog hvor hovedpersonen er den onde og hvor det ikke bliver gjort særligt tydeligt i begyndelsen, at det er ham der er ond.
En ret spændende bog :)
Den handler om en manipulerende og forvirret mand der ikke selv lægger mærke til at han mentalt torturerer sin meget unge kone indtil hun begår selvmord.
Jeg tror jeg havde svært ved at læse en bog hvor hovedpersonen er den onde og hvor det ikke bliver gjort særligt tydeligt i begyndelsen, at det er ham der er ond.
En ret spændende bog :)
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August 25, 2025
Desværre ikke Tjekhov-approved
January 1, 2023
Sometimes I feel like I'm tougher on Dostoyevsky than on other writers because I know his top level. Maybe this should be a 5, because I'm not sure how much better it could be. I guess I would like a bit more insight into the wife's state of mind.
November 28, 2025
Noget af det bedste Dostojevskijs jeg har læst, men også noget af det mindst komplicerede. Hvem taler fortælleren til? Er det mig, er det ham selv. Der var øjeblikke hvor man var i tvivl om han overhovedet var i live. Og scenen med pistolen for panden. Den var hæsblæsende som forfatterens hestescene i forbrydelse og straf.
January 22, 2026
Min første Dostojevskij, vidste ikke helt hvad jeg skulle forvente, men synes egentligt at fortællingen var ret gribende. Ikke udelukkende på grund af fortællingens psykologiske aspekter, der skal give et læseligt indtryk af en fortvivlelse, men også pga. manden, der fremstår som en meget upålidelig fortæller. Han kan ihvertfald være ret frusterende at lytte til
November 11, 2024
Det var virkelig en vild bog på trods af hvor kort den er. Den rummer virkelig meget grusomhed og vilde følelser. Slutningen gav mig virkelig en klump i maven og på grund af den skæbne en af personerne har og måden den bliver beskrevet. Kan klart anbefale den!
June 11, 2024
Det var en rustjebane af følelser, ekstrem gibende og læst på 0,5.
August 18, 2025
Ulykkelige menneske.
May 30, 2025
Jeg synes at bogen var kedelig indtil jeg var lidt over halvvejs. Jeg må sige at slutningen var fantastisk og at den reddede bogen.
Der er nogle underlige udtalelser i bogen som jeg ikke har set fra Dostojevskij før. Protagonisten er overlegen og magtliderlig, men alligevel ender han med at vække medfølelse. Det var lidt ubehagligt at læse, og han virkede til at fetishize sin kone på grund af hendes unge alder?? Jeg må indrømme at jeg tror at pigens synspunkt i bogen vil have været mere interessant end hans. Bogen er mørk men så derfor også mere realistisk og tragisk. Man kommer virkelig til at føle for den unge pige.
Jeg var dog meget rørt i slutningen, og synes at bogen overordnet var god. Meget svært sprog og meget gammeldags.
yndlings citater:
And a woman who loves, oh, a woman who loves idealizes even the vices, even the villainies of the man she loves. He would not himself even succeed in finding such justification for his villanies as she will find for him.
One who is accustomed to depravity, on the contrary, always softens things, acts more disgustingly, but with a show of decorum and seemliness by which she claims to be superior to you.
“that to resist such tyranny and to accept the consequences meant showing far more manliness than fighting any kind of duel.”
They say that people standing on a height have an impulse to throw themselves down. I imagine that many suicides and murders have been committed simply because the revolver has been in the
hand.
But the knowledge that I had seen, that I knew it all, and was waiting for death at her hands without a word — might hold her back on the incline.
Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it is the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out
And though no one knew about it, she knew, and for me that was everything, because she was everything for me, all the hope of the future that I cherished in my dreams! She was the one person I had prepared for myself, and I needed no one else
now her little song was so faint — it was not that it was melancholy (it was some sort of ballad), but in her voice there was something jangled,
broken, as though her voice were not equal to it, as though the song itself were sick.
There was paradise in my soul, I would have made it blossom around you! Well, you wouldn’t have loved me — so be it, what of it? Things should still have been like that, everything should have remained like that. You should only have talked to me as a friend — we could have rejoiced and laughed with joy looking at one another. And so we should have lived. And if you had loved another — well, so be it, so be it! You should have walked with him laughing, and I should have watched you from the other side of the street. . . . Oh, anything, anything, if only she would open her eyes just once!
They say the sun gives life to the universe. The sun is rising and — look at it, is it not dead? Everything is dead and everywhere there are dead.
“Men, love one another” — who said that? Whose commandment is that?
Her little shoes are standing by the little bed, as though waiting for her. . . . No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what will become of me?
Der er nogle underlige udtalelser i bogen som jeg ikke har set fra Dostojevskij før. Protagonisten er overlegen og magtliderlig, men alligevel ender han med at vække medfølelse. Det var lidt ubehagligt at læse, og han virkede til at fetishize sin kone på grund af hendes unge alder?? Jeg må indrømme at jeg tror at pigens synspunkt i bogen vil have været mere interessant end hans. Bogen er mørk men så derfor også mere realistisk og tragisk. Man kommer virkelig til at føle for den unge pige.
Jeg var dog meget rørt i slutningen, og synes at bogen overordnet var god. Meget svært sprog og meget gammeldags.
yndlings citater:
And a woman who loves, oh, a woman who loves idealizes even the vices, even the villainies of the man she loves. He would not himself even succeed in finding such justification for his villanies as she will find for him.
One who is accustomed to depravity, on the contrary, always softens things, acts more disgustingly, but with a show of decorum and seemliness by which she claims to be superior to you.
“that to resist such tyranny and to accept the consequences meant showing far more manliness than fighting any kind of duel.”
They say that people standing on a height have an impulse to throw themselves down. I imagine that many suicides and murders have been committed simply because the revolver has been in the
hand.
But the knowledge that I had seen, that I knew it all, and was waiting for death at her hands without a word — might hold her back on the incline.
Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it is the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out
And though no one knew about it, she knew, and for me that was everything, because she was everything for me, all the hope of the future that I cherished in my dreams! She was the one person I had prepared for myself, and I needed no one else
now her little song was so faint — it was not that it was melancholy (it was some sort of ballad), but in her voice there was something jangled,
broken, as though her voice were not equal to it, as though the song itself were sick.
There was paradise in my soul, I would have made it blossom around you! Well, you wouldn’t have loved me — so be it, what of it? Things should still have been like that, everything should have remained like that. You should only have talked to me as a friend — we could have rejoiced and laughed with joy looking at one another. And so we should have lived. And if you had loved another — well, so be it, so be it! You should have walked with him laughing, and I should have watched you from the other side of the street. . . . Oh, anything, anything, if only she would open her eyes just once!
They say the sun gives life to the universe. The sun is rising and — look at it, is it not dead? Everything is dead and everywhere there are dead.
“Men, love one another” — who said that? Whose commandment is that?
Her little shoes are standing by the little bed, as though waiting for her. . . . No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what will become of me?
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