Notes from the Underground: Zapiski iz podpol'ya - Softcover

Dostoyevsky, Fedor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784350486 ISBN 13: 9781784350482

Publisher: JiaHu Books, 2014

Synopsis

Notes from the Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? The second part of the book describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator.

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'...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn' - Friedrich Nietzsche

'Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss' - Albert Einstein

'Russia's evil genius' Maxim Gorky --interactive.eu.com

From the Publisher

A new translation of the most important of Dostoevsky’s shorter works.

Dostoevsky's Underground Man is a combination of the psychologically tortured poor clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his early stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of the great novels of ideas of his later career, with their ongoing central concern of the nature of free will.

Edition details

• Publisher: JiaHu Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: Russian
• ISBN 10: 1784350486
• ISBN 13: 9781784350482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118