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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: White Nights (Black Saturday / France Culture). Broadcast on France Culture on June 11, 2016. A tale of solitude, exaltation, and failure, in a new translation that restores Dostoyevsky's stylistic truth. Translation: André Markowicz. Adaptation: Carlos Carretoni and Margaux Grilleau. Director: Michel Sidoroff. Literary advisor: Caroline Ouazana. “White Nights” is first and foremost a true love story. One night, in a deserted Petersburg, a lonely and romantic young man meets a tearful young girl. Desperate over heartbreak, Nastenka gives in to the fantasy of the young man, in love from the first moment, lulls him - and lulls herself - into illusion, until... the fiancé returns and she throws herself into his arms. André Markowicz's new translation draws an astonishing stylistic advantage from this novel. Discordant, ironic, the voice we hear here is that of the great Russian writer, who never stopped fighting, in the name of truth, against deceptive elegance, that of words and that of feelings. Publisher's presentation “White Nights” is a work from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's youth. This short story has often been adapted for the cinema: by Visconti, Bresson, and more recently by Paul Vecchiali. This radio fiction was born from a desire to adapt it differently: with eyes closed. To show the images through voices, to travel to Petersburg and to let oneself be transported by the power of the words and the language of the author. With: Nicolas Gonzales, Clara Noël, Brigitte Faure, Guillaume Durieux, Nathalie Kanoui Sound effects: Élodie Fiat Sound recording and mixing: Cédric Chatelus Technical assistance and editing: Sacha Trope Assistant director: Laure-Hélène Planchet “White Nights” by Fyodor Dostoevsky are published by Editions Actes Sud, in the Babel collection Source: France Culture #FyodorDostoevsky #LeSémaphore #LesNuitsBlanches #Writer #Russia #Literature #Novel #SaintPetersburg #Love #Solitude #Dreamer #Translation #AndréMarkowicz #RadioCreation #BlackSaturday #NicolasGonzales #BrigitteFaure #ClaraNoël #GuillaumeDurieux #NathalieKanoui #FranceCulture