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PENGUIN CLASSICS NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND A...

Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works  Notes from
Underground and The Double  translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis
Jackson. 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. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow.
From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison  and in later years his passion for gambling led him
deeply into debt. His other works available in Penguin Classics include Crime and Punishment 
The Brothers Karamazov  The Idiot and Demons. If you enjoyed Notes from Underground and The
Double  you might like Dostoyevsky's Demons  also available in Penguin Classics. '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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