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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.
- ISBN10 1909399094
- ISBN13 9781909399099
- Publish Date 5 September 2013 (first published 1 October 1961)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint Roads Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 144
- Language English