Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and House of the Dead
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From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life, to the anxious antihero of Notes From Underground—a man who both craves and despises affection—this volume and its often-tormented characters showcase Dostoyevsky’s evolving outlook on man’s fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author’s life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as “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”—and Notes From Underground as “an awe-and-terror-inspiring example of this sympathy.”
Translated and with an Afterword by Andrew R. MacAndrew
With an Introduction by Ben Marcus
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I missed Dostoyevsky. That's probably why the first half of the book didn't sit well with me. When I got used to him again, everything was great, and I loved the second half of the Notes. I love and hate how while reading I literally feel his embarrassment and shame as if they were my own. Simple, unhappy life, told in a great manner. P.S. The first passage is as good as Camus' Stranger's.
Description
From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life, to the anxious antihero of Notes From Underground—a man who both craves and despises affection—this volume and its often-tormented characters showcase Dostoyevsky’s evolving outlook on man’s fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author’s life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as “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”—and Notes From Underground as “an awe-and-terror-inspiring example of this sympathy.”
Translated and with an Afterword by Andrew R. MacAndrew
With an Introduction by Ben Marcus
Book Information
Posts
I missed Dostoyevsky. That's probably why the first half of the book didn't sit well with me. When I got used to him again, everything was great, and I loved the second half of the Notes. I love and hate how while reading I literally feel his embarrassment and shame as if they were my own. Simple, unhappy life, told in a great manner. P.S. The first passage is as good as Camus' Stranger's.