{"product_id":"notes-from-underground-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393976120","title":"Notes from Underground: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"\"Backgrounds and Sources\" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them \"\u003cem\u003eWinter Notes on Summer Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e,\" the author's account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition are excerpts from V. F. Odoevksy's \"\u003cem\u003eRussian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e\" and I. S. Turgenev's \"\u003cem\u003eHamlet of Shchigrovsk District\u003c\/em\u003e.\" In \"Responses\", Michael Katz links this seminal novel to the theme of the underground man in six famous works, two of them new to the Second Edition: an excerpt from M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's \u003cem\u003eThe Swallows\u003c\/em\u003e, Woody Allen's \u003cem\u003eNotes from the Overfed\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Walser's \u003cem\u003eThe Child\u003c\/em\u003e, an excerpt from Ralph Ellison's \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/em\u003e, an excerpt from Yevgeny Zamyatin's \u003cem\u003eWe\u003c\/em\u003e, and an excerpt from Jean-Paul Sartre's \u003cem\u003eErostratus\u003c\/em\u003e. \"Criticism\" brings together eleven interpretations by both Russian and Western critics from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, two of them new to the Second Edition. Included are essays by Nikolai K. Mikhailovsky, Vasily Rozanov, Lev Shestov, M. M. Bakhtin, Ralph E. Matlaw, Victor Erlich, Robert Louis Jackson, Gary Saul Morson, Richard H. Weisberg, Joseph Frank, and Tzvetan Todorov. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDostoevsky, Fyodor:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky\u003c\/strong\u003e wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other novels.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatz, Michael R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael R. Katz\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in New York and educated at Williams College and the University of Oxford. He taught Russian language and literature at Williams College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College, where he is the C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies. He is the author of two monographs--\u003cem\u003eThe Literary Ballad in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e--and the translator of over fifteen Russian novels into English, including works by Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. He lives in Cornwall, Vermont.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662174916882,"sku":"9780393976120","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c509fbaa-971e-4eaf-a906-0b9a77d00b58.jpg?v=1733514978","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/notes-from-underground-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393976120","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}