FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY
Dostoevsky's genius is on display in this powerful existential novel.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground, is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099140115
Number of pages: 176
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 12 mm
Weight: 128 g
Language: English (Language of text), Russian (Original language of a translated text)
You read every shimmering, tormented word, mesmerised. This is Dostoevsky in distillation, a prelude not just to his leading works, but to the entire 20th century... How is it possible to have a character who evokes aspects of Hitler and Pooter, who is hilarious yet disturbing, and both villain and victim? Because Dostoevsky was a genius, and the narrator of Notes From Underground his most protean character, with whom you never quite know how you stand - Sunday Times
Dostoevsky's is a genuinely disembodied voice, speaking for all sufferers and victims - Guardian
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The first part of the novel reads as a philosophical rambling about the nature of the human condition. The narrator finds it to be one of doom, a seeking of struggle, as it is suffering which grants meaning in life.... More
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