Name: Notes From Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780140442526

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Notes From Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Year

1972

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0140442529

ISBN13

9780140442526

Synopsis "Notes From Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics) "

‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’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 sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘ant-hill’ 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 exactly resembles him – his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness.Jessie Coulson’s introduction discusses the stories’ critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy’s great novels.