Notes from Underground and the Double

di Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Autore)

Ronald Wilks (Traduttore)

Penguin Books Ltd, 2009

'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

• Autore: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Traduttore: Ronald Wilks
• Editore: Penguin Books Ltd
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• Peso: 258 gr.
• EAN: 9780140455120

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