[PDF] Notes From Underground eBook

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0825306612

GET BOOK

Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal. The novel tells the story of Jan Reichl, condemned to a menial life by his father's alleged crime, and of Betka, the girl who offers him education, opportunity and love, but who mysteriously refuses to commit herself.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2019-02-12T23:01:19Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Notes from Underground is a fictional collection of memoirs written by a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The man is never named and is generally referred to as the Underground Man. The “underground” in the book refers to the narrator’s isolation, which he described in chapter 11 as “listening through a crack under the floor.” It is considered to be one of the first existentialist novels. With this book, Dostoevsky challenged the ideologies of his time, like nihilism and utopianism. The Underground Man shows how idealized rationality in utopias is inherently flawed, because it doesn’t account for the irrational side of humanity. This novel has had a big impact on many different works of literature and philosophy. It has influenced writers like Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche. A similar character is also found in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Notes from Underground was published in 1864 as the first four issues of Epoch, a Russian magazine by Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoevsky. Presented here is Constance Garnett’s translation from 1918. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Joseph Frank
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400833418

GET BOOK

A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language—and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2,500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works—from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2015-05-10
Category : Russia
ISBN : 9781840225778

GET BOOK

A collection of Dostoevsky's short stories, including Notes From The Underground which is considered to be one of the first works of existential literature.

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Individet på den forkerte hylde søger at hævde sig gennem overkreativitet

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Midland Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Saint Petersburg (Russia)
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal-beautifully handled in small masterpiece.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802845703

GET BOOK

One of the most profound and most unsettling works of modern literature, Notes from Underground (first published in 1864) remains a cultural and literary watershed. In these pages Dostoevsky unflinchingly examines the dark, mysterious depths of the human heart. The Underground Man so chillingly depicted here has become an archetypal figure -- loathsome and prophetic -- in contemporary culture. This vivid new rendering by Boris Jakim is more faithful to Dostoevsky s original Russian than any previous translation; it maintains the coarse, vivid language underscoring the "visceral experimentalism" that made both the book and its protagonist groundbreaking and iconic.

Author : Thomas Cushman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1995-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791425442

GET BOOK

Describes the Russian rock music counterculture and how it is changing in response to Russia's transition from a socialist to a capitalist society. It explores the lived experiences, the thoughts and feelings of the rock musicians as they meet the challenges of change.

Author : Stephen Duncombe
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1621062910

GET BOOK

Much history and theory is uncovered here in the first comprehensive study of zine publishing. From their origins in early 20th century science fiction cults, their more proximate roots in ‘60s counter-culture and their rapid proliferation in the wake of punk rock, Stephen Duncombe pays full due to the political importance of zines as a vital network of popular culture. He also analyzes how zines measure up to their utopian and escapist outlook in achieving fundamental social change. Packed with extracts and illustrations, he provides a useful overview of the contemporary underground in all its splendor and misery.