| Notes from Underground and the Gambler Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author), Boulton, Nicholas (Read by), Garnett, Constance (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1982653477 ISBN-13: 9781982653477 Publisher: Naxos OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 5.6" (0.50 lbs) |
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| Publisher Description: Considered one of the first existentialist novels, Notes from Underground contains one of the most unsettling characters in 19th-century fiction. Resentful, cruel, entitled and pitiful, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man is a disturbing human being bent on humiliating others for his own amusement. He despises modern society and stews in a self-imposed misery, articulated through his bitter, contradictory monologues about torment and alienation. The Gambler is perhaps the most personal of Dostoyevsky's novels. Written to pay off the author's own gambling debts, the book follows the obsessions and anxieties of Alexey Ivanovitch, a sympathetic character who has given in to the forces of addiction. His despair is compounded by his love for the enigmatic Polina Alexandrovna, a cold and distant figure who exploits his desperation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Boulton, Nicholas: - Nicholas Boulton, actor and winner of nine Earphones Awards for narration, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning the BBC Carleton Hobbs Award for Radio in 1993. Since then he has been heard in numerous productions for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. He has appeared in films such as Shakespeare in Love and Topsy Turvy. Theater credits include Platonov for the Almeida, Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Arcadia for the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: -Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. He died in 1881 having written some of the most celebrated works in the history of literature, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. Garnett, Constance: -Constance Garnett (1862-1946) translated the works of numerous Russian authors, including Tolstoy, Gogol, Pushkin, and Turgenev. |