Notes from Underground : The Double

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Penguin, 1988
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
Some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some creasing to covers, age toned pages (see photographs)

“Notes from Underground (1864) is a study of a single character, ‘the real man of the Russian majority’, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky’s own deepest beliefs.  One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his ‘most utterly naked pages… Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart’.
The Double (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double.  Is ‘Mr Golyadkin junior’ really a double or simply a fearful side of his own nature?  This uncertainty is what gives urgency and horror to a tale which may be read as a classic study of human breakdown.”