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Title: Notes from the Underground and the Gambler (World's Classics) by Fedor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Malcolm, III Jones ISBN: 0192827197 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A Tour to Despair and Rebellion to Common Sense
Comment: A typical taste from the book:A shaken woman, deeply wounded in her soul, a poor woman forced to be a prostitute in order to feed her children, comes to the Man from the Underground for moral support.Now listen what he says to her:"In fact,you know what I really need:that you go to hell,that's what.I need peace.And I am willing to sell the whole World for a kopeyka just not to be disturbed.The World may go to hell or I won't drink my tea!Well, you know what I tell you,the World may very well go to hell,just that I can drink my tea in peace."
If you want to have a few hours of fun with what they told you is "good literature", then DON'T even open the Notes from the Underground. It's undoubtedly one of Dostoevsky's best works, but also one of the darkest and most confusing books ever written (it was Nietzche's favurite). The "hero" of the Notes is an enbittered man, an awful character, who has renounced to all hopes. He has withdrawn from public and social life and lives in his own private "underground", where he hopes the cruel laws of nature and morality will not touch him.He leads a rebellion to logic and common sense,to that "terrible two plus two is four",as he puts it.If you are willing to take a tour of his "underground", it won't be a pleasant experience at all! It's a dark place: no hope, no bright sights, no love, and even no sense. It's a place where the common world ends and where something else, very similar to hell, begins. If you want to visit the underground, be prepared to face the biggest philosophical questions about meaning of life, logic, the truth of common sense. It isn't a tour for anyone. You have to be strong, smart, you must have a sound religious and philosophical background. But if you are prepared to take the tour, you will have one of the most thrilling intelectual experiences ever.
I agree with Lev Shestov, who said that all Dostoevsky's major novels,Crime and Punishment,The Possesed,The Brothers Karamazov, are just a large annotation to the Notes from the Underground, an explanation for a larger audience. Go into the Underground and you will meet Raskolnikov, Stavroghin,the Great Inquisitor, Ivan Karamazov, Mitya Karamazov, Kirillov-they are all there, hidden behind the confusing flux of words that comes from the mouth of the Man from the Underground.
A short book that will take you a long time to read and even longer to understand. A book for corious and intellectually brave readers. A timeless piece of art, that will never stop to shake the ones who dare to take it in their hands without dismissing it as a "stupid little thing".
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Title: Devils (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Michael R. Katz ISBN: 0192838296 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Plague by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert ISBN: 0679720219 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett ISBN: 0553211757 Publisher: Bantam Classics Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky ISBN: 067973452X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin, Roger Keys, Angela Keys, Susan Sontag, Roge Keys ISBN: 0811214842 Publisher: New Directions Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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