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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One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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. "From the Hardcover edition."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Notes from Underground
• Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9780679734529
• ISBN: 067973452X
• ID: 02596627
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 156 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 203 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 1994

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