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In a bitter, dazzling monologue from a St. Petersburg “underground,” an unnamed narrator dissects his own contradictions—craving freedom yet sabotaging himself—until his confession becomes an unsettling challenge to reason, progress, and every comfortable story we tell about motivation.

In the luminous St. Petersburg “white nights,” a lonely dreamer’s chance act of protection draws him into four evenings of intimacy with a young woman—where hope, confession, and the ache of unreturned love collide in a single, unforgettable week.

In a provincial town where laughter is a weapon and kindness a liability, the pitiable, proud Osip Polzunkov tells his “comic” story—only to reveal how easily a man can be coaxed into humiliations that feel like love, and betrayals that feel like fate.

Behind a shabby screen in a St. Petersburg lodging-house, a timid clerk guards a battered trunk with near-religious devotion—until gossip, cruelty, and sudden illness expose the terrifying secret that poverty can hide in plain sight.

At a glittering country estate, an eleven-year-old boy is teased, dazzled, and suddenly awakened to love and shame—until a quiet act of courage, performed in secret, becomes his first true step into adulthood.

On a snowy New Year’s Eve in St. Petersburg, a humble clerk’s sudden engagement ignites rapture—and dread—as love, poverty, and obligation collide, and a gentle friendship is tested by the pressure of work, gratitude, and an anxious, vulnerable heart.