Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel Notes from Underground is considered the world's first existentialist novel. It is presented as the memoirs of an unnamed narrator, a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg, whose rambling stories and insights are a deep existentialist attack on emerging Weste
Notes from the Underground
โ Scribed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Publisher
- Interactive Media
- Year
- 2016;2012
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 428 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1911144553
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โฆ Synopsis
The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider the circumstances in the midst of which our society is formed. I have tried to expose to the view of the public more distinctly than is commonly done, one of the characters of the recent past.
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I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . . In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic natu
### Review Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize *The Brothers Karamazov*One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevskys original. *New York Times Book Review* It may well be that Dostoevskys [world], with all
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel Notes from Underground is considered the world's first existentialist novel. It is presented as the memoirs of an unnamed narrator, a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg, whose rambling stories and insights are a deep existentialist attack on emerging Weste
I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . . In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic natu
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel Notes from Underground is considered the world's first existentialist novel. It is presented as the memoirs of an unnamed narrator, a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg, whose rambling stories and insights are a deep existentialist attack on emerging Weste