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Publisher | Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Publication Year | 2009 |
ISBN-13 | 9780140455120 |
ISBN-10 | 0140455124 |
Binding | Paperback |
Number of Pages | 290 Pages |
Language | (English) |
Dimensions (Cms) | 20 x 14 x 4 |
Weight (grms) | 350 |
'That sense of the 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
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society. 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 tragi-comic study of human consciousness.
Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Penguin Random House India Private Limited