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Notes from Underground

By Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear (transl.) , Larissa Volokhonsky (transl.)

Book information

Publisher
Everyman's Library
Year
2004
ISBN
1400041910, 9781400041916
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
550 kB (563453 bytes)
Series
Everyman's Library
Pages
160\137
Time added
2015-10-24 08:26:57

Description

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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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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