Notes from Underground - Couverture souple

Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1600960839 ISBN 13 : 9781600960833

Editeur : Waking Lion Press, 2008

Synopsis

The passionate confessions of a suffering soul; the brutal self-loathing of a tormented man; the scathing scorn of an alienated antihero who has become one of the greatest figures in all literature. Notes from Underground, published in 1864, introduces the moral, political, and social ideas Dostoevsky later explores in such masterpieces as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow", and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The author of the diary and the diary itself are of course imaginary.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Waking Lion Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1600960839
• ISBN 13: 9781600960833
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible