Themes

Loneliness and Isolation the three days of anguish when the city leaves and the faces known by sight disappear (First Night), the confession of one who has lived completely alone (Second Night), the pin that fastens Nastenka to her grandmother (Nastenka's story, Second Night), the... Dream and Fantasy the whole novels created in daydream (First Night), the dreamer's speech, the goddess Fantasy and the voluptuous poison (Second Night), the Chinese prince Nastenka dreamed of before the lodger's books (Nastenka's story, Second Night), the arguments that... Love the condition not to fall in love (First Night), the bundle and the lodger's promise (Nastenka's story, Second Night), the praise for his not having fallen in love and the comparison of the two men (Third Night), the declaration, the love that does not demand... Happiness the epigraph and the happy "until tomorrow" (First Night), the new dream that is new happiness (Second Night), the fever of joy after the opera (Nastenka's story, Second Night), Nastenka's happy wait (Third Night), the plans for a life in common (Fourth... Memory and the Past the request to return to the embankment to remember (First Night), the anniversaries of sensations that never happened and the question of whether he has lived (Second Night), the grandmother's old days, when she played Rosina in a home theater (Nastenka's...