Notes from Underground

Notes from UndergroundDostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self contradictory narrative that serves as

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.

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From the Hardcover edition.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/30/1994
ISBN: 9780679734529
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.20w x 0.42d