Notes from Underground
“Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published by Canongate in 2012, is a significant work that bridges the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. This edition, part of the Main – Canons series, spans 152 pages and is presented in English. The novel features an unnamed narrator, a former official who has retreated into an underground existence, where he expresses his thoughts in a passionate and self-contradictory narrative.
Readers will encounter a profound exploration of social utopianism and the irrational nature of humanity through the narrator’s obsessive reflections. This edition, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, aims to faithfully convey the original’s blend of tragedy and dark comedy. The book delves into themes of psychological conflict and satire, making it a notable entry in the realm of classic literature.
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“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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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”–Publisher’s description.
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