The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A young man takes a room in a shabby Saint Petersburg boardinghouse and becomes entangled with its eccentric, possessive landlady, whose intense attention quickly shifts from flattering to controlling. As she reveals an obsessive attachment rooted in a tragic past, his sense of safety erodes and he realizes the relationship is both emotionally suffocating and dangerously manipulative, exposing themes of jealousy, power, and urban isolation.
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- 1847
- Nationality
- Russian
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- Alternate Titles
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- Khozyaika
- The Mistress
- Хозяйка
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