Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on August 30, 1994, is a reprint edition comprising 176 pages in English. This classic novel features a unique narrative style, presenting the thoughts of an unnamed narrator who has retreated from society into an underground existence. Through this character, Dostoevsky explores themes of isolation, social critique, and the complexities of human nature.
Readers will encounter a passionate and obsessive narrative that challenges social utopianism while delving into the irrational aspects of humanity. The updated translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky honors the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth, ensuring a faithful rendition of this literary work. This edition invites readers to engage with the psychological depth and literary significance that have made this novel a cornerstone of classic literature.
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Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth.
One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.
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