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Notes from Underground and the Double

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 irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the `anthill` 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 looks exactly like him – his double, perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like `Notes from Underground`, this is a masterly tragicomic study of human consciousness.Ronald Wilks`s extraordinary new translation is accompanied here by an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson discussing these pivotal works in the context of Dostoyevsky`s life and times. This edition also contains a chronology, bibliography, table of ranks and notes on each work.”`Notes from Underground, with its mood of intellectual irony and alienation, can be seen as the first modern novel … That sense of 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

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