Notes from Underground (Everyman’s Library)
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a significant work published by Everyman’s Library on March 23, 2004. This edition, comprising 160 pages, presents Dostoevsky’s exploration of the complexities of human nature through the eyes of an unnamed narrator, a former official who has retreated into an underground existence. The narrative serves as a critique of social utopianism while delving into the irrational aspects of humanity.
Readers will encounter a passionate and self-contradictory narrative that reflects the tensions between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky aims to faithfully convey the original’s depth, capturing both its tragic and comedic elements. This edition of Notes from Underground offers insights into the themes of individualism and societal critique, making it a notable addition to the realm of continental European fiction.
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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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.
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