{"product_id":"kxuce4zbv2rp","title":"Notes From Underground \u0026 The Double by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Double\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48328169193722,"sku":"KXUCE4ZBV2RP","price":362.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/KXUCE4ZBV2RP_1.jpg?v=1748012575","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/kxuce4zbv2rp","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}