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Notes from the Underground - Couverture souple

Dostoevsky, F. M.

 
9781843911265: Notes from the Underground
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1843911264 ISBN 13 : 9781843911265
Editeur : Hesperus Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Dostoevsky's Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his "sickness" and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier. Scornful of others and of himself, he recounts a party he attended at which, unwelcome, he got drunk and acted scandalously, the visit to a brothel that ensued, and the chance arrival there of love--love which, of course, by his very nature he cannot accept, and so debases. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest, most influential prose writers of all time.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Dostoevsky's Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his sickness and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier. Scornful of others and of himself, he recounts a party he attended at which, unwelcome, he got drunk and acted scandalously, the visit to a brothel that ensued, and the chance arrival there of love--love which, of course, by his very nature he cannot accept, and so debases. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest, most influential prose writers of all time.

Quatrième de couverture

From the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with an introduction and notes

'You read every shimmering, tormented word, mesmerised' Sunday Times

The apology and confession of a minor mid-nineteenth-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, absurdly comical account of one man's break from society and his descent 'underground'.

'This translation invites us to discover the Underground Man anew' Chicago Tribune

See also: Demons

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Éditeur
Hesperus Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1843911264
ISBN 13 
9781843911265
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
166
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Personne responsable
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