Notes from Underground (Vintage classics) (Russian Classics in Russian and English)

by F. M. Dostoevsky

Richard Pevear (Translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

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Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth.

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in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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


  • ISBN10 067973452X
  • ISBN13 9780679734529
  • Publish Date 30 August 1994 (first published 1 October 1983)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 December 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Vintage Books