| Notes from the Underground: Zapiski Iz Podpol'ya Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fedor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784350486 ISBN-13: 9781784350482 Publisher: Jiahu Books OUR PRICE: $8.55 Product Type: Paperback Language: Russian Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.35 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Notes from the Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is considered by many to be the 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 describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator. |
