num_pages: 256
description: Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground".
language: English
title: Notes from Underground
titlecomplete: Notes from Underground (Norton Critical Edition)
characters: The underground man
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Classics, Philosophy, Classic Literature, Russia, Psychology, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 143636
places: Eastern Europe, Russia
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc