Notes From Underground and The Double
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Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of soci...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af Notes From Underground And The Double af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. ''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 BradburyAlienated 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
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780140455120
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
352
Udgivelsesdato
29-01-2009
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3150011
EAN nr.
9780140455120
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
21
Bredde (mm)
196
Længde (mm)
130
Vægt (g)
260