Name: Notes from Underground & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
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Author: Fiódor M. Dostoievski
ISBN: 9781840225778

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Notes from Underground & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Translated by

Constance Garnett

Illustrated by

Keith Carabine

Publisher

Wordsworth Editions

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.1x12.7x4.1 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781840225778

Synopsis "Notes from Underground & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)"

With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife's suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal.

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Moscow, November 11, 1821-Saint Petersburg, February 9, 1881) was one of the main writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social, and spiritual context of Russian society in the second half of the 19th century

He is considered one of the greatest writers of the West and of world literature.

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