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Notes from Underground and the Double
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Series: Penguin Classics
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0140442529
ISBN13: 9780140442526
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jul 30 1972
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.22 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780140442526
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jul 30 1972
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.22 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
'It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!'Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'ant-hill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness.Jessie Coulson's introduction discusses the stories' critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy's great novels.
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