Notes from Underground: Introduction by Richard Pevear

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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Published: 03/23/2004
Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.23w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781400041916
Language: English