Notes from Underground and the Double

'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 Bradbury Alienated 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 JacksonAuthor: Jackson, Robert Louis,introduction,Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,author,Wilks, Ronald,translator
Contributors: Jackson, Robert Louis,introduction,Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,author,Wilks, Ronald,translator
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 291
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Languages: English,Published,Russian,Original Language,Englis
Edition: 1
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Published/Release Date: 29 Jan 2009
Bic Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation
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Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Author/Director/Artist: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dimension (cm): 21x197x132 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 24x194x129 mm
Item Weight (g): 257
Package Weight (g): 240