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Notes from Underground

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Notes from Underground Synopsis

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

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. A masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness, this Little Clothbound Classics edition has been translated by Ronald Wilks.

'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

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780241820254
Publication date:
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 272 pages
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Genres: Classic fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Interior life
Narrative theme: Politics
Novella (Short Novel)
Fiction in translation

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