Notes from underground
(2021, original release: 1993)
Fiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
FICTION/DOSTOYEVSKY,F
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, 2021
©1993
©1993
EDITION
Second Vintage Classics edition
DESCRIPTION
xxix, 139 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780679734529, 067973452X, 9780679734529, 067973452X
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Translation of: Zapiski iz podpolʹi︠a︡
Underground -- Apropos of the wet snow
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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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
Originally published in 1864
In English translated from the Russian