White Nights

Dostoevsky's 1848 'sentimental romance' follows an unnamed dreamer whose solitary night-walks through St. Petersburg are broken by a chance meeting with Nastenka. Over four nights and a final morning, their tender, fragile intimacy tests whether a life lived in imagination can survive contact with a real, waiting heart. Among the most lyrical of Dostoevsky's early works, it distils the ache of longing and the cost of dreaming into a few incandescent scenes.