Notes from Underground and the Double Paperback / softback
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life.
With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society.
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 tragi-comic study of human consciousness. Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson
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- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:29/01/2009
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- ISBN:9780140455120
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:29/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780140455120