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Notes from Underground : Introduction by Richard Pevear
Overview
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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.Customers Also Bought

Details
- ISBN-13: 9781400041916
- ISBN-10: 1400041910
- Publisher: Everyman's Library
- Publish Date: March 2004
- Dimensions: 8.19 x 5.23 x 0.61 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.64 pounds
- Page Count: 160
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