'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 BradburyAlienated 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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140455120Number of pages: 352Weight: 258 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An undisputable giant of Russian fiction,Fyodor Dostoevsky remains one of the most widely read Russian writers,best known for iconic novels Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov.
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