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Notes from Underground and the Double
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Series: Penguin Classics
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ISBN10: 0140455124
ISBN13: 9780140455120
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: May 1 2009
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.18 Depth: 7.74
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780140455120
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: May 1 2009
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.18 Depth: 7.74
Language: English
Two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, are combined here for an intensive exploration of human consciousness, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson.
Alienated from society and paralyzed 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 irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' 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 looks exactly like him--his double, perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly tragicomic study of human consciousness. Ronald Wilks's extraordinary new translation is accompanied here by an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson discussing these pivotal works in the context of Dostoyevsky's life and times. This edition also contains a chronology, bibliography, table of ranks and notes on each work.
Alienated from society and paralyzed 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 irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' 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 looks exactly like him--his double, perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly tragicomic study of human consciousness. Ronald Wilks's extraordinary new translation is accompanied here by an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson discussing these pivotal works in the context of Dostoyevsky's life and times. This edition also contains a chronology, bibliography, table of ranks and notes on each work.
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