'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
Alienated 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. Translated by Ronald
Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson
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