{"product_id":"9780140455120","title":"Notes from Underground and the Double","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Double\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, are brought together in this edition for an intensive exploration of human consciousness. Translated by Ronald Wilks, with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlienated from society and paralyzed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in society's 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal into an existence 'underground'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Double\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality when a government clerk encounters a man who looks exactly like him—his double, perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this work is a masterful tragicomic study of human consciousness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRonald Wilks's extraordinary translation is accompanied by an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson, who discusses these pivotal works in the context of Dostoyevsky's life and times. This edition also includes a chronology, bibliography, table of ranks, and notes on each work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dostoyevsky, Fyodor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title \/ Penguin Classics","offer_id":67948250530098,"sku":"9780140455120","price":837.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/8052\/8434\/files\/9780140455120.webp?v=1791706587","url":"https:\/\/bibliothek-eg.com\/products\/9780140455120","provider":"BIBLIOTHEK EGYPT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}