Bibliograph

Notes from underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated by Jessie Coulson

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Notes from underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated by Jessie Coulson

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eng

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fiction

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Notes from underground

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated by Jessie Coulson

Summary

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. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'

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Notes from the underground

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