– Ok, let's get one thing clear; this is not a novel for those looking for some light and funny summer literature! This is deep and complex writing, brilliant at that! "Notes from Underground" is an unusual, one-off work in Dostoyevsky's canon. It is written in the first person and is an intense study of a single character, often believed to be an expression of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. It is split into two parts; the first part is an expression of the beliefs of "The Underground Man", and the second part is "The Underground Man in Action", meeting a circle of friends and then a young prostitute. This second half of the book is utterly painful to read, yet in a good way! This is a very deep, disturbing and dark novel, it's not for all readers, and you should really think twice before getting into the plot, as it at times is very dark and intense! To conclude, this is a dark and at times twisted read, brilliant none the less!
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel Notes from Underground is considered the world's first existentialist novel. Originally published in 1864 (this English translation was first published in 1918), 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 Western philosophies. Les mer
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel Notes from Underground is considered the world's first existentialist novel. Originally published in 1864 (this English translation was first published in 1918), 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 Western philosophies.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Andrews UK
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 126
- ISBN
- 9781781665800
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
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