{"product_id":"9780140455120-notes-from-underground-and-the-double","title":"Notes from Underground and the Double","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work'  Malcolm Bradbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in \u003ci\u003eThe Double\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e, this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31654223904865,"sku":"9780140455120","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32334168.jpg?v=1737186429","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780140455120-notes-from-underground-and-the-double","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}