Notes from the Underground - Couverture souple

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1936041979 ISBN 13 : 9781936041978

Editeur : Simon & Brown, 2011

Synopsis

Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's 'Notes From the Underground' tells the story of his tortured life.

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.

Revue de presse

Hilarious yet disturbing (Sunday Times )

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Brown
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1936041979
• ISBN 13: 9781936041978
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible