{"product_id":"9780140455120","title":"Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky","description":"That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work'  Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who looks exactly like him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness.   Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson; 352 pages; 29\/01\/2009\u003cdiv class=\"goodreadr\" data-isbn=\"9780140455120\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451910599038,"sku":"9780140455120","price":19.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/1298\/0350\/files\/9780140455120.jpg?v=1761273064","url":"https:\/\/it-book.co.uk\/products\/9780140455120","provider":"IT-Book","version":"1.0","type":"link"}