Notes from underground

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Notes from underground

a new translation, backgrounds and sources, responses, criticism

1st ed.
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Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes — moral, religious, political and social — that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works.

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Bibliography: p. [241]-242.
Translation of Zapiski iz podpolʹi͡a︡.
Includes excerpts from Dostoevsky's letters to his brother Mikhail, 1859-1864, notebooks, 1864-1865, and Winter notes on summer impressions.

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A Norton critical edition

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Dewey Decimal Class
891.73/3
Library of Congress
PG3326 .Z4 1989, PG3326.Z4 1989

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Pagination
viii, 245 p. ;
Number of pages
245

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2525917M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0393957446
LCCN
88001062
OCLC/WorldCat
17439479
LibraryThing
8454
Goodreads
545126

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OL21025633W
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Q695116
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