{"product_id":"notes-from-underground-and-the-double-9780140442526","title":"Notes from Underground and The Double","description":"‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘ant-hill’ of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‘underground’. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in \u003ci\u003eThe Double\u003c\/i\u003e when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him – his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground,\u003c\/i\u003e this is a masterly study of human consciousness.Jessie Coulson’s introduction discusses the stories’ critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy’s great novels.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62237606936963,"sku":"9780140442526","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780140442526.jpg?v=1785363972","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/notes-from-underground-and-the-double-9780140442526","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}