Mention Appertaining To Books Notes from Underground & The Double
Title | : | Notes from Underground & The Double |
Author | : | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
Pages | : | Pages: 287 pages |
Published | : | July 30th 1972 by Penguin Books (first published January 29th 1864) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Philosophy. 19th Century |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Paperback | Pages: 287 pages Rating: 4.2 | 5412 Users | 236 Reviews
Rendition Concering Books Notes from Underground & The Double
‘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.Specify Books During Notes from Underground & The Double
ISBN: | 0140442529 (ISBN13: 9780140442526) |
Edition Language: | English |
Rating Appertaining To Books Notes from Underground & The Double
Ratings: 4.2 From 5412 Users | 236 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books Notes from Underground & The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky is excellent at creating gloomy and unstable male narrators that make following the story feel like you are solving a puzzle. I enjoyed the book thoroughly and it is hard to say which one of the novels, Notes from Underground or The Double, I liked more. Both of the stories were very dark stories with unreliable narrators; you could see how both of the narrators were sliding into madness slowly through the story, and you couldn't never tell if the details in the story were justTranslator's Introduction--Notes From Underground--The DoubleChronology
Two of Dostoyevski's shorter works12 May 2010 I'm glad that I'm not the only person that found this book hard to follow at times, but since it is a collection of thoughts from a man who is trapped in his own feelings of self-worthlessness it is understandable. Dostoyevsky is a writer that one needs to be able to focus on to be able to read and understand clearly, if it is possible to clearly understand much of his writings. It is not to say that he is not fpr he seems to be able to catch the
I read this last year sometime in some electronic form or other. The slow deliberate exploration of character is amazing. Reminds me very much of the Kafka character in A Letter to My Father. Weak, aware of his own weakness, defiant of the culture that calls him weak, but still unable to rise above. Terrific character study.
Damn it, this one gave headaches...and stomachaches - from laughing.Dostovyesky's a man who likes to think so much, I think. His lead character has natural queerness, and we could be friends, in fact, best of friends.If all men would think like this man, well I don't really know, I'll have a hard time picking who's the best lol.Seriously speaking though, it's easy for him to be disagreeable, but at some parts, I can't help but agree in his views. The book didn't really follow a plot like the
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