Imagine a man standing before the corpse of his wife, a suicide who jumped out of the window just a few hours earlier. Fantastic and realistic at the same time - this is how Dostoevsky describes his masterful narrative "The Gentle Spirit," published in 1876, in the preface. In an inner monologue, he allows the widower to reflect on his life: broken by suffering, grief, and guilt, he is as much a victim as he is a perpetrator. A poignant piece of world literature about vulnerability and vengeance, about late remorse and the painful suddenness of love.