Notes from Underground and the Double

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

ISBN 10: 0140455124 / ISBN 13: 9780140455120

Edité par Penguin Classics, 2009

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Notes from Underground and the Double
• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140455124
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140455120
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

'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 Bradbury

Alienated 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

À propos de l?auteur

Moscow-born Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) served time in a convict prison for his political alliances, and in his later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His novels include The Devils and The Brothers Karamazov. Ronald Wilks has translated numerous volumes for the Classics, including most recently Chekhov's stories and forthcoming editions of Tolstoy's stories, and Gogol's stories and plays.