Notes from underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Contributors: Pevear, Richard, 1943-; Volokhonsky, Larissa.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1994-09
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction; Russia -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
Description: A faithful translation of the classic written at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century follows the narrator's withdrawal from his life as an official to the underground, where he makes passionate and obsessive observations on social utopianism and the irrational nature of humankind.