Notes from Underground and the Double

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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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Weight 0.26 kg
Dimensions 2.2 × 13 × 19.8 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

USA

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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

352

Publisher

Year Published

2009-1-29

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0140455124

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