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Reading Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground in Russian: A Parallel-Text Russian Reader

Reading Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground in Russian: A Parallel-Text Russian Reader

Pettus, Mark

Paperback

Series: Reading Russian

RussianGeneral ReferenceWriting Instruction

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1088045340
ISBN13: 9781088045343
Publisher: Mark R. Pettus
Published: Jul 16 2022
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A foundational text of Existentialism that has influenced writers from Franz Kafka to Ralph Ellison to Imre Kertész, Dostoevsky's snow-covered Notes from the Underground - presented here in its entirety, in both the original Russian and a new, facing English translation - is bitingly sarcastic, intellectually provocative, and emotionally wrenching. Composed by an anonymous Underground Man, it consists of two parts: first, of a radical philosophical manifesto in defense of human freedom at its most irrational; and, second, of an uncomfortably honest account of a life paralyzed by hyper-reflexivity, endless daydreaming, petty resentment, and a total lack of any meaningful human contact. When a chance at something resembling love suddenly appears where least expected - and with it, an opportunity to break free from his hellish, self-imposed underground - our hero struggles to accept it, and gives us what is surely one of the most repulsive finales in all of literature.

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