Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground

Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
ISBN-10
1853993433
ISBN-13
9781853993435
Category
Literary Criticism / General
Pages
113
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Author
Richard Peace

Description

This indispensible text can justly be regarded as the forerunner to the great flowering of Dostoevsky's novels which was to follow. The first part of this unusual work is often treated as a philosophical text in its own right; the second part illustrates the theory of the first by means of its own fictional practice. At the same time, the reader is introduced to the phenomenon of the 'Underground Man', one of the first genuine anti-heroes in European literature.

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