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‘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
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‘Notes from Underground’ is a study of a single character, ‘the real man of the Russian majority’, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky’s own deepest beliefs. ‘The Double’ is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double.
| Weight | 0.258 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 2 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 291 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Omnibus ed |
| Dewey | 891.733 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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