Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: Notes From Underground And The Double
Author(s): Dostoyevsky Fyodor
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780140455120
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/1/2009
Category: Fiction In Translation