| Genre: | Literature |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | August 30, 1994 |
| Edition: | 12th |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780679734529 |
| ISBN10: | 067973452X |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Dimensions: | 5.18 x 7.96 x 0.52 inches |
| Weight: | 215 g |
About the Book
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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.