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Notes From The Underground

Autor Fyodor Dostoyevsky
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mai 2019

Înainte de a ne oferi amploarea metafizică din The Brothers Karamazov sau puritatea tragică din The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky a explorat cele mai întunecate unghere ale conștiinței umane în această nuvelă fundamentală. Notes from the Underground marchează un punct de cotitură în opera autorului, abandonând parțial sentimentalismul din lucrări timpurii precum White Nights în favoarea unei analize psihologice brutale și a unui cinism mușcător. Putem afirma că acest text nu este doar o ficțiune clasică, ci actul de naștere al existențialismului literar, oferind voce „omului din subterană” — un personaj care refuză să fie o simplă rotiță într-un mecanism social bine uns.

Notăm cu interes structura duală a cărții: prima parte funcționează ca un monolog interior dens, un atac asupra raționalismului și a ideii că omul va acționa întotdeauna spre binele său propriu. Cea de-a doua parte coboară în concret, relatând episoade de o umilință auto-indusă care explică izolarea protagonistului. Dacă The Metamorphosis and Other Stories de Franz Kafka v-a captivat prin explorarea alienării individului în fața absurdului, această carte extinde experiența în direcția unei revolte conștiente împotriva determinismului. Considerăm că stilul lui Fyodor Dostoyevsky atinge aici o intensitate rară; vocea naratorului este deopotrivă respingătoare și fascinantă, forțând cititorul să recunoască acele impulsuri iraționale pe care societatea încearcă să le ignore. Este o lectură care nu oferă confort, ci o oglindă necruțătoare a contradicțiilor umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789353361051
ISBN-10: 9353361052
Pagini: 98
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Lector House

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Despre autor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) este unul dintre cei mai influenți scriitori ai literaturii universale, opera sa explorând condiția umană în contextul spiritual și social tulburat al Rusiei secolului al XIX-lea. După o tinerețe marcată de studii militare și o condamnare la moarte comutată în exil în Siberia, el a revenit în literatură cu o forță psihologică fără precedent. Autor al unor capodopere precum The Brothers Karamazov și The Idiot, Dostoyevsky a împletit temele religioase cu dilemele filosofice, fiind considerat un precursor al existențialismului și un fin observator al patologiilor sufletului uman.


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Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered the author's first masterpiece - the book in which he "became" Dostoevsky - and is seen as the source of all his later works. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose acclaimed translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment have become the standard versions in English, now give us a superb new rendering of this early classic. Presented as the fictional apology and confession of the underground man - formerly a minor official of mid-nineteenth-century Russia, whom Dostoevsky leaves nameless, as one critic wrote, "because 'I' is all of us" - the novel is divided into two parts: the first, a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique; the second, a powerful, at times absurdly comical account of the man's breakaway from society and descent "underground." The book's extraordinary style - brilliantly violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted - shocked its first readers and still shocks many Russians today. This magnificent new translation captures for the first time all the stunning idiosyncrasy of the original.

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky[a] (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Dostoevsky's body of works consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories, and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature.[3] His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into St. Petersburg's literary circles. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia, he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.