Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

Notes from Underground

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

  • Release Date: 1994-08-30
  • Genre: Classics
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 24 Ratings)

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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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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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