1873 short stories

thumb|"Bobok" takes place in a cemetery, perhaps similar to this one in St. Petersburg, Russia|St. Petersburg.|right "Bobok" (, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that first appeared in 1873 in his self-published Diary of a Writer. The story consists largely of a dialogue between recently deceased occupants of graves in a cemetery, most of whom are fully conscious and retain all the features of their living personalities. The dialogue is overheard by a troubled writer who has lain down near the graves.