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Notes from the Underground

Autor Fyodor Dostoyevsky
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mai 2008
Notes from the Underground, by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor gives us a searing portrayal of a soul in torment. Written from the point of view of an un-named protagonist, Notes from the Underground charts one man's descent into a world of alienation, where even the offer of redemption through love is rejected in favor of cruelty. Laying down themes that would be picked up in his later novels, Dostoyevsky presents us with the ultimate anti-hero and offers a caution against romantic notions of a solitary existence. The 'underground man', as he has come to be known, is who we all could become if we cut our ties to the people around us. Dark and gripping, Notes from the Underground is an unforgettable novel.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781605120201
ISBN-10: 1605120200
Pagini: 148
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Akasha Classics
Locul publicării:United States

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

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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.