Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nascimento : 1828-07-24, Saratov, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Morte : 1889-10-29

História

Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828–1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism. He was the dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia, despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, and was later highly praised by Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin. In 1862, while confined in the Fortress of St. Peter and Paul, he wrote his famous novel 'What Is to Be Done?' The novel was an inspiration to many later Russian revolutionaries, who sought to emulate the novel's hero Rakhmetov, who was wholly dedicated to the revolution. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was enraged by what he saw as the simplicity of the political and psychological ideas expressed in the book, and wrote his 1864 novel Notes from Underground as a reaction against it.

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Nikolay Chernyshevsky

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BDT Digital: What To Do?
Novel
The protagonist of the novel is a woman. The main theme is freedom. At the very beginning of the play, Vera Pavlovna utters a text that becomes the manifesto of her life: “I want to be free, I do not want to be indebted to anyone, I do not want anyone to tell me: you must do this for me! I want to do only what I want. And let others do the same; I don’t want to demand anything from anyone, I don’t want to restrict freedom and I want to be free myself. ”
What Is to Be Done?
Novel
TV adaptation of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel about Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and arranged marriage to seek economic independence.