Notes from the underground / by Fyodor Dostoevsky ; edited and translated by Kirsten Lodge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Contributor:

Lodge, Kirsten, editor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Zapiski iz podpolʹi͡a. English

Language:

English

Russian

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

171 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, ON : Broadview Press, [2014]

Summary:

This new translation of Notes from the Underground renders Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous work in readable and idiomatic contemporary English. As well as the full text of the work itself, this edition includes an informative introduction and a selection of useful background documents. Notes from the Underground is recounted from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who describes himself as sick, spiteful, and unattractive. His thoughts and his moods veer unpredictably as he reflects on the folly of idealism and the reality of human squalor and degradation. The psychological power of the book is deeply rooted in the conflicts and contradictions that afflict the narrator-many of which seem to have afflicted Dostoevsky himself. Personal and intellectual context for these conflicts is provided in this volume's background materials: writings from some of the thinkers against whom Dostoevsky positioned himself; excerpts from Dostoevsky's personal letters and his earlier published works; and a substantial selection of relevant illustrations and photographs. Book jacket.

Contents:

In Context 125

Literary Contexts 125

From Charles Fourier, "The Scale of Personalities and Temperaments," The New Industrial and Social World (1829) 125

Poems / Nikolai Nekrasov Nekrasov, Nikolai 127

["When with air ardent word"] (1846) 127

["When I'm riding along a dark street alone"] (1847) 128

["Yesterday around six"] (1848) 130

From On the Weather (1858-59) 130

From Nikolai Chernyshevsky, What is to Be Done? (1863) 132

From Chapter 2 132

From Chapter 4: Vera Pavlovna's Fourth Dream 136

Other Writings by Dostoevsky 140

From Notes from the House of the Dead (1860) 140

From "Baal," Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863) 141

Selections from Dostoevsky's Letters to His Brother Mikhail (1859-64) 143

Critical Reception 150

From Nikolai K. Mikhaiiovsky, "A Cruel Talent" (1883) 150

From Vasily Rozanov, Dostoevsky and the legend of the Grand Inquisitor (1891) 157

Nineteenth-Century Images 160.

Notes:

Translation of: Zapiski iz podpolʹi͡a.

ISBN:

9781554812219

1554812216

OCLC:

878837975