Penguin Classics Notes from Underground and the Double, (Paperback)

from bodachliath

This book contains two short novels that have some thematic common ground, which helps to explain why Penguin housed them in a single volume. Notes from Underground: This is a very dark and surprisingly modern novella in which an unsympathetic narrator, a retired junior civil servant, describes h...

from anneearney

The Double is still one of my favorites.

from wrk1

I imagine Notes was just as difficult when it was published as it is now. The "story" is depressing and starts only in the second part of the novel. During the first part, I kept thinking, "How can the depressed extremes of this character ever be interesting? Is this book one long whine by a self...

from wealhtheowwylfing

Hey wait, are you a misanthrope? Do you feel betrayed and disappointed with life? Are you a bitter, bitter man? Why narrator, I never would have guessed! Why don't you spend the next hundred pages telling me about it? That sounds like loads of fun.

from xuebi

This volume combines two of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's iconic stories: Notes from Underground and The Double; both are thematically linked by their study of the human consciousness in a decidedly tragic-comedic fashion.In the first novella, Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky...