num_pages: 320
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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.
language: English
title: Letters from the Underworld
titlecomplete: Letters from the Underworld
characters: The underground man
genres: Literature, Psychology, Classics, Novels, Philosophy, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Russia, Fiction, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 143630
places: Russia, Eastern Europe
publisher: Dutton Adult