Notes from Underground and the Double (Penguin Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jesse Coulson (Translator, Introduction)
'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
سب زمرہ:
سال:
2009
اشاعت:
17
ناشر کتب:
Penguin
زبان:
english
صفحات:
291
ISBN 10:
0141904097
ISBN 13:
9780141904092
فائل:
EPUB, 2.05 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009