Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground and the Double (Paperback)

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Country of Origin
GB
Translator
Ronald Wilks
Contributor
Robert Louis Jackson (Introduction by)
EAN
9780140455120
ISBN
9780140455120
Release Date
01/29/2009
ISBN-10
0140455124
Publication Name
Notes from Underground and the Double
Book Title
Notes from Underground and the Double
Release Year
2009
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140455124
ISBN-13
9780140455120
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71722600

Product Key Features

Book Title
Notes from Underground and the Double
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Classics, General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
891.7/33
Synopsis
Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson. 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 tragicomic 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 chronology, bibliography, table of ranks and notes on each work. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison, and in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other works available in Penguin Classics include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot and Demons. If you enjoyed Notes from Underground and The Double, you might like Dostoyevsky's Demons, also available in Penguin Classics. 'Notes from Underground, with its mood of intellectual irony and alienation, can be seen as the first modern novel ... That sense of 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, 'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart.' 'The Double' (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double. Is 'Mr Golyadkinjunior' really a double or simply a fearful side of his own nature? This uncertainty is what gives urgency and horror to a tale which may be read as a classic study of human breakdown.
LC Classification Number
PG3325

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