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Request this book.| Genre: | Literature |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | July 30, 1972 |
| Edition: | 16th |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780140442526 |
| ISBN10: | 0140442529 |
| Dimensions: | 5.1 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches |
| Weight: | 227 g |
About the Book
‘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.