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Loading... Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics) (original 1972; edition 1972)by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I've not much to say about this book that hasn't been said before. Both stories are nice and deep. 'Notes from Underground' - a mind bender! 'The Double' - a mind bender in a very different way! Though hard going at times - I think that was largely due to translations - I loved this book. I'd love to read it in Russian, but I don't speak Russian :) This book contains two short novels that have some thematic common ground, which helps to explain why Penguin housed them in a single volume. Notes from Underground: This is a very dark and surprisingly modern novella in which an unsympathetic narrator, a retired junior civil servant, describes his gradual alienation from society, initially in a description of his philosophy, but then through narrating some of the episodes that led to his downfall. This book prefigures some of the themes of Crime and Punishment. The Double: This is an earlier novella that is more of a comedy, though the core story is a dark vision. Once again the narrator is a St Petersburg civil servant. This one sees himself as an essentially honest person, but gradually falls from grace, then encounters his double, a lookalike answering to the same name, who gradually takes over the "hero's" life. A compelling vision of a broken man trapped in his own nightmare no reviews | add a review
Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.733Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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'Notes from Underground' - a mind bender!