{ "item_title" : "Notes from the Underground", "item_author" : [" Fyodor Dostoyevsky "], "item_description" : "Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a confession the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title A Confession. The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. Although the first part of the novella has the form of a monologue, the narrator's form of address to his reader is acutely dialogized. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, in the Underground Man's confession there is literally not a single monologically firm, undissociated word. The Underground Man's every word anticipates the words of an other, with whom he enters into an obsessive internal polemic.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/8/19/609/102/8196091028_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.99", "online_price" : "16.99", "our_price" : "16.99", "club_price" : "16.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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