Notes from the Underground Contributor(s): Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Author) |
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ISBN: 161895637X ISBN-13: 9781618956378 Publisher: Bibliotech Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 134 pages |
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Publisher Description: Notes from the Underground is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is considered by many to be the world's first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow," and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying, and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, omniscient narrator. |