num_pages: 158
description: “The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of  Notes from Underground  as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.”—from the Introduction by Donald Fanger“I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man,” the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground , published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment , The Idiot , and The Brothers Karamazov . And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned.
language: English
title: Notes from Underground
titlecomplete: Notes from Underground
characters: The underground man
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Classics, Philosophy, Classic Literature, Russia, Psychology, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 143660
places: Eastern Europe, Russia
publisher: Bantam Classics