β Scribed by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky
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Dostoevskyβs 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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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 complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of manβs 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.
Cover
Title Page
CONTENTS
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Notes from Underground
Part One: Underground
Part Two: Apropos of the Wet Snow
Notes
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This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of Notes from Underground. This edition would be useful if yo
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevskyβs 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
βThe political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.ββfrom the Introduction by Donald Fanger βI am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man,β the irasci