– Ok, let's get one thing clear; this is not a novel for those looking for some light and funny summer literature! This is deep and complex writing, brilliant at that! "Notes from Underground" is an unusual, one-off work in Dostoyevsky's canon. It is written in the first person and is an intense study of a single character, often believed to be an expression of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. It is split into two parts; the first part is an expression of the beliefs of "The Underground Man", and the second part is "The Underground Man in Action", meeting a circle of friends and then a young prostitute. This second half of the book is utterly painful to read, yet in a good way! This is a very deep, disturbing and dark novel, it's not for all readers, and you should really think twice before getting into the plot, as it at times is very dark and intense! To conclude, this is a dark and at times twisted read, brilliant none the less!
Notes From Underground
«This excellent Canongate Canons edition has an enlightening and entertaining introduction by DBC Pierre . . . Dostoevsky chips away at complex human motivation with persuasive stylistic tools, succeeding in being hilarious and heart-rending in a single sentence (after all, "mankind is a comical construction"), captured in this beautiful translation by Natasha Randall. It's through elegantly excavating the particularities of his era that Dostoevsky strikes upon timeless truths, and with perspicacious analysis of behaviour, tunnels through to hidden depths»
* Guardian *
'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .'
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society.
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In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky's disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Canongate Canons
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 160
- ISBN
- 9781786899002
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«This excellent Canongate Canons edition has an enlightening and entertaining introduction by DBC Pierre . . . Dostoevsky chips away at complex human motivation with persuasive stylistic tools, succeeding in being hilarious and heart-rending in a single sentence (after all, "mankind is a comical construction"), captured in this beautiful translation by Natasha Randall. It's through elegantly excavating the particularities of his era that Dostoevsky strikes upon timeless truths, and with perspicacious analysis of behaviour, tunnels through to hidden depths»
* Guardian *
«Dostoyevsky's Underground Man . . . is perhaps the greatest reliably unreliable narrator in world fiction»
* New York Times *
«The most unflinching study of self-loathing in the literary canon»
* Irish Times *
«Notes from Underground is still a modern book; it still can kick»
* New Yorker *
«Dostoyevsky is one of the few psychologists from whom I have learned something»
NIETZSCHE
«Notes From Underground, with its mood of intellectual irony and alienation, can be seen as the first modern novel . . . 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
«An author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul . . . [Notes From Underground is] an awe- and terror-inspiring example of this sympathy»
THOMAS MANN
«Notes From Underground transcends art and literature, and its place is among the great mystical revelations of mankind . . . It cannot be recommended to those who are not either sufficiently strong to overcome it or sufficiently innocent to remain unpoisoned. It is a strong poison, which is most safely left untouched»
D.S. Mirsky in HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
«One of the most revolutionary and original works of world literature»
WALTER KAUFMAN