Poor People. Notes from Underground

In his first novel "Poor People," Dostoevsky, following Gogol, draws attention to the "little man."
The hero of Dostoevsky's story "Notes from Underground" torments himself and readers with mental paradoxes and recalls how he scandalously emerged from underground into the light... one day.
The style of "Notes from Underground" shocked contemporaries with the painful and nervous intonation of the narrator, who speaks in a confused and verbose manner about himself and the world. The greatest Russian philologist of the 20th century, Mikhail Bakhtin, called this manner "the word with a loophole." What this means is clear from the first phrases of the story: "I am a sick man... I am a wicked man. I am an unattractive man. I think I have liver pain. However, I don’t understand anything about my disease and don’t really know what exactly hurts me."

- Contains a detailed preface of the project "Polka"
- Fabric binding
- Gift edition
- Comfortable layout for reading, creamy pages

Author: Фёдор Достоевский

Printhouse: Al'pina Pablisher

Series: The Main Books of Russian Literature

Age restrictions: 12+

Year of publication: 2025

ISBN: 9785961492132

Number of pages: 288

Size: 222x169x20 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 512 g

ID: 1729555

In his first novel "Poor People," Dostoevsky, following Gogol, draws attention to the "little man."
The hero of Dostoevsky's story "Notes from Underground" torments himself and readers with mental paradoxes and recalls how he scandalously emerged from underground into the light one day.
The style of "Notes from Underground" shocked contemporaries with the painful and nervous intonation of the narrator, who speaks in a confused and verbose manner about himself and the world. The greatest Russian philologist of the 20th century, Mikhail Bakhtin, called this manner "the word with a loophole." What this means is clear from the first phrases of the story: "I am a sick man... I am a wicked man. I am an unattractive man. I think I have liver pain. However, I don’t understand anything about my disease and don’t really know what exactly hurts me."