![]() Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness.Jessie Coulson’s introduction discusses the stories’ critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy’s great novels. The Eternal Husband The Double White Nights A. ![]() The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him – his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Complete Novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Unabridged): Novels and Novellas by. Dostoevsky includes: Notes from Underground The Gambler A Disgraceful Affair. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. He was raised in the family home in the grounds of the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, which was in a lower class district on the edges of Moscow. Mikhail Dostoevsky and Maria Dostoevskaya (born Nechayeva). 30 October 1821 in Moscow, was the second child of Dr. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘ant-hill’ of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‘underground’. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Fyodor Dostoevsky, born on 11 November O.S. The Double is one of the finest of his shorter works. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin. ‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. The Double Fyodor Dostoyevsky About This Book While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad.
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