Notes from Underground & The Double
Gripping new translations of two harrowing psychological novels by the Russian master The two novels of inner turmoil brought together here mark a turning point for Dostoyevsky, and are among his most personally revealing. The anonymous narrator of Notes from Underground (1864) tells of his...
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Gripping new translations of two harrowing psychological novels by the Russian master The two novels of inner turmoil brought together here mark a turning point for Dostoyevsky, and are among his most personally revealing. The anonymous narrator of Notes from Underground (1864) tells of his refusal to become a worker in the "ant-hill" of society and of his gradual withdrawal to an underground existence. A classic study of human breakdown, The Double (1846) tells of a man haunted by his double-or is it just the fearful side of his own nature? Both are universal testaments of human despair, made vibrant in masterly new translations.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140455120 (0140455124)
Publish date: January 29th 2009
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Politics,
Philosophy,
19th Century,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Psychology
Translator's Introduction--Notes From Underground--The DoubleChronology
Translator's Introduction--Notes From Underground--The DoubleChronology
I'm glad that I'm not the only person that found this book hard to follow at times, but since it is a collection of thoughts from a man who is trapped in his own feelings of self-worthlessness it is understandable. Dostoyevsky is a writer that one needs to be able to focus on to be able to read and ...
Hey wait, are you a misanthrope? Do you feel betrayed and disappointed with life? Are you a bitter, bitter man? Why narrator, I never would have guessed! Why don't you spend the next hundred pages telling me about it? That sounds like loads of fun.
15 years ago
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