Mr. Prokharchin

Mr. Prokharchin

Mr. Prokharchin is a short story written in 1846 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It appeared among others in the volume "Poor folk and other stories". It is inspired by a true story.

The story depicts the life of a miser, Mr Prokharchin. He lives an extremely poor life, eating frugal meals and sleeping on a matress directly on the floor. His landlady and the other tenants feel sorry for him. However, on his death, they eventually discover that the man was in fact wealthy and was voluntarily living in that way voluntarily. He was hiding his fortune inside his mattress.

In his review of the short story, Lantz comments that '"Mr. Prokharchin," dreams dreams, in which the accumulation of money figures prominently, express his anxiety about his sense of self and his guilt over the selfishness that has isolated him from other human beings.'[1]

References

  1. ^ Lantz, K. A. (2004). The Dostoevsky encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 118. ISBN 0313303843. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XfDOcmJisn0C&pg=PA118. 

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novellas

Poor Folk (1846) · The Double: A Petersburg Poem (1846) · Netochka Nezvanova (1849) · Uncle's Dream (1859) · The Village of Stepanchikovo (1859) · Humiliated and Insulted (1861) · The House of the Dead (1862) · Notes from Underground (1864) · Crime and Punishment (1866) · The Gambler (1867) · The Idiot (1869) · The Eternal Husband (1870) · Demons (1872) · The Adolescent (1875) · The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Short stories

"Mr. Prokharchin" (1846) · "Novel in Nine Letters" (1847) · "The Landlady" (1847) · "The Jealous Husband" (1848) · "A Weak Heart" (1848) · "Polzunkov" (1848) · "The Honest Thief" (1848) · "The Christmas Tree and a Wedding" (1848) · "White Nights" (1848) · "A Little Hero" (1849) · "A Nasty Anecdote" (1862) · "The Crocodile" (1865) · "Bobok" (1873) · "The Heavenly Christmas Tree" (1876) · "The Meek One" (1876) · "The Peasant Marey" (1876) · "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (1877)
Non-fiction

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