Notes from the Underground
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : 1606800809 |
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Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : 1606800809 |
Author | : Rosalind Williams |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2008-04-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262731908 |
Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world. The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams takes us inside that critical historical moment, giving equal coverage to actual and imaginary undergrounds. She looks at the real-life invasions of the underground that occurred as modern urban infrastructures of sewers and subways were laid, and at the simultaneous archaeological excavations that were unearthing both human history and the planet's deep past. She also examines the subterranean stories of Verne, Wells, Forster, Hugo, Bulwer-Lytton, and other writers who proposed alternative visions of the coming technological civilization. Williams argues that these imagined and real underground environments provide models of human life in a world dominated by human presence and offer a prophetic look at today's technology-dominated society. In a new essay written for this edition, Williams points out that her book traces the emergence in the nineteenth century of what we would now call an environmental consciousness—an awareness that there will be consequences when humans live in a sealed, finite environment. Today we are more aware than ever of our limited biosphere and how vulnerable it is. Notes on the Underground, now even more than when it first appeared, offers a guide to the human, cultural, and technical consequences of what Williams calls “the human empire on earth.”
Author | : Roger Scruton |
Publisher | : Beaufort Books |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014-03-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0825306612 |
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 | : Joseph Frank |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 984 |
Release | : 2009-10-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400833418 |
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 Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2018-12-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3748119321 |
The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider the circumstances in the midst of which our society is formed. I have tried to expose to the view of the public more distinctly than is commonly done, one of the characters of the recent past. He is one of the representatives of a generation still living. In this fragment, entitled "Underground," this person introduces himself and his views, and, as it were, tries to explain the causes owing to which he has made his appearance and was bound to make his appearance in our midst. In the second fragment there are added the actual notes of this person concerning certain events in his life.
Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-05-10 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : 9781840225778 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Individet på den forkerte hylde søger at hævde sig gennem overkreativitet
Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2009-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1467438308 |
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 | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2004-03-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Written in 1864, this classic novel recounts the apology and confession of a minor nineteenth-century official, an account of the man's separation from society, and his descent "underground.".
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 187752753X |
Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant. A dramatic monologue in which the narrator leaves himself open to ridicule and reveals more of his weaknesses than he intends, this influential short novel lays the ground work for the political, religious, moral and political ideas that are explored in Dostoevsky's later works.