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A Gentle Creature

Fyodor Dostoevsky

'A Fantastic Story' from A Writer's Diary (November 1876), inspired by the news of a seamstress who threw herself from a window holding an icon. Beside the body of his young wife, a pawnbroker tries in a disordered monologue to understand why she killed herself, and gradually discovers his own silent tyranny. Also translated as 'The Meek One'.