Title: A cynical masterpiece
Product review: This collection contains one of my favorite of Dostoyevsky's works,Notes from the Underground. With that beautiful air of complete cynicism and hate for everything in ones life, told ironically by the narrater who partly resembles all of us in this society and still means as much now as it did when it was first published. It has influenced so many writers, musicians, artists and us average ants, and really could not have been translated better.Now the Double is probably the reason why I didn't rate this five stars. It has some interesting ideas and does show a young Dostoyevsky maturing into the writer he would become, but I do find it a bit lacking in many aspects, but it certainly can be forgiven, it does make me wonder why they would put these two works together as a whole collection though.I would recommend it for Notes on its own, and the Double is interesting to get a glimpse of the young hero of russian literature to come.
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