Notes from the underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Dover thrift editionsPublication details: New York : Dover Publications, 1992.Edition: Dover edDescription: iii, 91 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 048627053X
  • 9780486270531
Uniform titles:
  • Zapiski iz podpol´i?a. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PG 3326 .Z4 1992
Online resources: Summary: Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. A minor official brutally scrutinizes himself and decides to go "underground, " away from society. This is a strange account of a man relentless in his examination of the world and his own soul, but it is also occasionally comical.
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Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. A minor official brutally scrutinizes himself and decides to go "underground, " away from society. This is a strange account of a man relentless in his examination of the world and his own soul, but it is also occasionally comical.

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