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Notes From Underground
Vintage (Uk) (Publisher)
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Book Description
'Notes From The Underground' is Doystoyevsky's allegory of the Russian State in
the middle of the tumultuous 19th century. Just as its anonymous hero's life
consists of appalling contradictions, so too, Russia at that time existed in a
state of irreconcilable tension between Western intellectualism, and the
'practical' traditions of Old Russia. Dostoyevsky was a prominent promoter of
'westernisation' un'til his Siberian exile 1854, following which he became an
ardent Slavophile. Notes From The Underground' repudiates many ideas of western
rationalism, arguing that irrational desires are just as potent a spur to human
behaviour, and leading Nietzsche to declare that Dostoyevsky was "the only
writer that has ever
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780099140115
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Vintage (Uk)
Publishing Date 1993
Product Edition 1