{"product_id":"notes-from-underground-and-the-double-9780140455120","title":"Notes from Underground and the Double","description":"\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground 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 The Double 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 Notes from Underground , this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 29 Jan 2009 by Penguin Books Ltd.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320982217082,"sku":"9780140455120","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780140455120.jpg?v=1790668213","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/notes-from-underground-and-the-double-9780140455120","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}