This article deals with the theme of alienation, in the sense of the subjugation of one person by another, that in the novella The Landlady appears as the moral domination of a woman by her husband. In his quest for a verisimilar representation of this question, which was taken with great perspicacity from contemporary life, Dostoevsky found an original perspective that reflected the great difficulty, indeed, the incapacity, of both of the characters, as well as the narrator, to apprehend existence in its totality.Keywords: Dostoevsky; The Landlady; Russian literature.Resumo: Este trabalho trata do tema da alienação, no sentido da subjugação de um ser humano por outro, que na novela A Senhoria se revela no domínio moral da mulher pelo marido. Na busca de uma representação verossímil dessa questão, extraída com grande capacidade de clarividência da realidade da época, Dostoiévski encontra uma perspectiva inédita, capaz de refletir toda a dificuldade, ou mesmo incapacidade, tanto do narrador como das personagens, de apreender a existência em sua totalidade.
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