num_pages: 136
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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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 complete 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: 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: 143633
places: Eastern Europe, Russia
publisher: Vintage Classics