Description: ‘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.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Notes from Underground; the Double
Item Length: 7.8in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 5.1in
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Psychological, Classics, Literary
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1972
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
