Notes from underground and The double / Fyodor Dostoyevsky; translated by Ronald Wilks; with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson.
By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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Contributor(s): Wilks, Ronald [translator] | Jackson, Robert Louis.
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BookPlace of publication: s.lPublisher: Penguin BooksDate of publication: 2009Description: lv, 291 pages: 20 cm.ISBN: 9780140455120.Subject(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 | Fiction in translation | Russia -- Manners and customs -- FictionDDC classification: 891.733 D7423 2009 Summary: Alienated from society and paralyzed 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.
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Alienated from society and paralyzed 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.
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