Notes from Underground and The Double

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fThe best thing is to do nothing! Better
conscious inertia! So, long live the undergroundV
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance,
the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from.
Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes
his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual
withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. 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.
Ronald Wilks's extraordinary new translation is accompanied here by an
introduction by Robert Louis Jackson discussing these pivotal works in the
context of Dostoyevsky's life and times. This edition also contains a chrono-... Tovább

Fülszöveg

fThe best thing is to do nothing! Better
conscious inertia! So, long live the undergroundV
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance,
the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from.
Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes
his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual
withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. 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.
Ronald Wilks's extraordinary new translation is accompanied here by an
introduction by Robert Louis Jackson discussing these pivotal works in the
context of Dostoyevsky's life and times. This edition also contains a chrono-
logy, bibliography, table of ranks and notes on each work.
'Notes from Underground, with its mood of intellectual irony and alienation, can
be seen as the first modern novel That sense of the meaninglessness of exist-
ence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Coriracftind Kafka,
to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' MALCOLM BRADBURY
Translated by RONALD WILKS
with an introduction by ROBERT LOUIS JACKSON
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