Notes from the Underground
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Russia
ISBN : 1606800809
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Russia
ISBN : 1606800809
Author : Rosalind Williams
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2008-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262731908
Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world. The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams takes us inside that critical historical moment, giving equal coverage to actual and imaginary undergrounds. She looks at the real-life invasions of the underground that occurred as modern urban infrastructures of sewers and subways were laid, and at the simultaneous archaeological excavations that were unearthing both human history and the planet's deep past. She also examines the subterranean stories of Verne, Wells, Forster, Hugo, Bulwer-Lytton, and other writers who proposed alternative visions of the coming technological civilization. Williams argues that these imagined and real underground environments provide models of human life in a world dominated by human presence and offer a prophetic look at today's technology-dominated society. In a new essay written for this edition, Williams points out that her book traces the emergence in the nineteenth century of what we would now call an environmental consciousness—an awareness that there will be consequences when humans live in a sealed, finite environment. Today we are more aware than ever of our limited biosphere and how vulnerable it is. Notes on the Underground, now even more than when it first appeared, offers a guide to the human, cultural, and technical consequences of what Williams calls “the human empire on earth.”
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0825306612
Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal. The novel tells the story of Jan Reichl, condemned to a menial life by his father's alleged crime, and of Betka, the girl who offers him education, opportunity and love, but who mysteriously refuses to commit herself.
Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2019-02-12T23:01:19Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Notes from Underground is a fictional collection of memoirs written by a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The man is never named and is generally referred to as the Underground Man. The “underground” in the book refers to the narrator’s isolation, which he described in chapter 11 as “listening through a crack under the floor.” It is considered to be one of the first existentialist novels. With this book, Dostoevsky challenged the ideologies of his time, like nihilism and utopianism. The Underground Man shows how idealized rationality in utopias is inherently flawed, because it doesn’t account for the irrational side of humanity. This novel has had a big impact on many different works of literature and philosophy. It has influenced writers like Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche. A similar character is also found in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Notes from Underground was published in 1864 as the first four issues of Epoch, a Russian magazine by Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoevsky. Presented here is Constance Garnett’s translation from 1918. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Joseph Frank
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400833418
A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language—and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2,500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works—from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.
Author : Nathanael West
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811218221
These two dark stories, and the most notable works of the short career of Nathanael West, remain stunningly powerful pieces of fiction more than 75 years after their original publication.
Author : Eric Bogosian
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781559361422
Back-in-print early work by the author of subUrbia and Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll.
Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816617821
Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.
Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2015-05-10
Category : Russia
ISBN : 9781840225778
A collection of Dostoevsky's short stories, including Notes From The Underground which is considered to be one of the first works of existential literature.
Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :
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