Notes from Underground and the Double
, by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author); Coulson, Jesse (Translator); Coulson, Jesse (Introduction by)Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780140442526 | 0140442529
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/1972
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 on 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 Dostoyevsky's great novels.