In the canon
White Nights
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1848
- Originally in
- Originally in Russian
- Pages
- Pages 60
For four luminous nights, when the Petersburg sky refuses to go fully dark, a lonely dreamer who has never truly lived walks the empty embankments and finds a girl weeping against a canal railing. Her name is Nastenka, and over those pale nights he pours out the whole of himself to her, the years spent loving imaginary people from behind a window, until for once he is not alone.
My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man’s life?
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