Notes From Underground 150th Anniversary Edition

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Marcus, Ben; MacAndrew, Andrew R.; MacAndrew, Andrew R.

• ISBN13: 9780451529558
• ISBN10: 0451529553
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-02
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

This collection showcases 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. Includes: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead.

Author Biography

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. vii
Preface to the First Edition	p. ix
A Brief Note on the Translation	p. xi
The Text of Notes from Underground	p. 1
Backgrounds and Sources	p. 93
Selected Letters from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky (1859-64)	p. 95
[Socialism and Christianity]	p. 98
from Winter Notes on Summer Impressions	p. 99
from Russian Nights	p. 101
from "Hamlet of Shchigrovsk District"	p. 102
from What Is to Be Done?	p. 104
Responses	p. 123
Parody	p. 125
from "The Swallows"	p. 125
Notes from the Overfed	p. 126
Imitation/Inspiration	p. 130
The Child	p. 130
from The Invisible Man	p. 133
from We	p. 136
from "Erostratus"	p. 137
Criticism	p. 139
[Dostoevsky's Cruel Talent]	p. 141
[Thought and Art in Notes from Underground]	p. 145
[Dostoevsky and Nietzsche]	p. 148
[Discourse in Dostoevsky]	p. 152
Structure and Integration in Notes from the Underground	p. 162
Notes on the Uses of Monologue in Artistic Prose	p. 178
[Freedom in Notes from Underground]	p. 186
[The Pun of Creativity; Double Determination]	p. 195
The Formalistic Model: Notes from Underground	p. 201
Notes from Underground	p. 213
[The Symbolic Game]	p. 250
Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Chronology	p. 255
Selected Bibliography	p. 257
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