Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (English) Paperback

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Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'.

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In a new translation by Ronald Wilks'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart.' 'The Double' (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double. Is 'Mr Golyadkinjunior' really a double or simply a fearful side of his own nature? This uncertainty is what gives urgency and horror to a tale which may be read as a classic study of human breakdown.

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New translations of these early Dostoevsky works, by Ronald Wilks.

Author Biography

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

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Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life.

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In a new translation by Ronald Wilks

Details ISBN0140455124 Author Robert Louis Jackson Short Title NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND & THE D Audience Age 17-17 Series Penguin Classics Language English Translator Ronald Wilks ISBN-10 0140455124 ISBN-13 9780140455120 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Birth 1821 Death 1881 Tag pengblackclassics Translated from Russian Imprint Penguin Classics UK Release Date 2009-01-29 Pages 352 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Publication Date 2009-01-29 Alternative 9780141904092 DEWEY 891.733 Audience General NZ Release Date 2009-02-12 AU Release Date 2009-02-12 We've got this

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