Notes from Underground

图书标准信息

• 作者 Fyodor Dostoyevsky（费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基） 著
• 出版社 Random House
• 出版时间 1983-10
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780553211443
• 定价 20.00元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 134页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

"Iamasickman...Iamaspitefulman,"theirasciblevoiceofanamelessnarratorcriesout.Andso,fromunderground,emergethepassionateconfessionsofasufferingman;thebrutalself-examinationofatormentedsoul;thebristlingscornandiconoclasmofalienatedindividualwhohasbecomeoneofthegreatestantiheroesinallliterature.NotesFromUnderground,publishedin1864,marksatumingpointinDostoevsky'swriting:itannouncesthemoralpolitical,andsocialideashewilltreatonamonumentalscaleinCrimeAndPunishment,TheIdiot,andTheBrothersKaramazov.Anditremainstothisdayoneofthemostsearinglyhonestanduniversaltestamentstohumandespaireverpenned.

"Thepoliticalcataclysmsandculturalrevolutionsofourcentury…confirmthestatusofNotesfromUndergroundasoneofthemostsheerlyastonishingandsubversivecreationsofEuropeanfiction."

【作者简介】

Hislifewasasdarkanddramaticasthegreatnovelshewrote.HewasborninMoscowin1821,thesonofaformerarmysurgeonwhosedrunkenbrutalityledhisownserfstomurderhimbypouringvodkadownhisthroatuntilhestrangled.Ashortfirstnovel,PoorFolk(1846),broughthiminstantsuccess,buthiswritingcareerwascutshortbyhisarrestforallegedsubversionagainsttheTsarin1849.Inprisonhewasgiventhe"silenttreatment"foreightmonths,beforehewasledinfrontofafiringsquad.Dressedinadeathshroud,hefacedanopengraveandawaitedexecutionwhenanorderarrivedcommutinghissentence.HethenspentfouryearsathardlaborinaSiberianprison,wherehebegantosufferfromepilepsy,andheonlyreturnedtoSt.Petersburgafulltenyearsafterheleftinchains.Hisprisonexperiencescoupledwithhisconversiontoaconservativeandprofoundlyreligiousphilosophyformesthebasisforhisgreatnovels.ButitwashisfortuitousmarriagetoAnnaSnitkina,followingaperiodofutterdestitutionbroughtaboutbyhiscompulsivegambling,thatgaveDostoyevskytheemotionalstabilitytocompleteCrimeandPunishment,TheIdiot,ThePossessed,andTheBrothersKaramazov.Whenhediedin1881,heleftalegacyofmasterworksthatinfluencedthegreatthinkersandwritersoftheWesternworld.

【目录】

Introduction

On the Translation

PART ONE

  Underground

PART TWO

  On the Occasion of Wet Snow

Notes