Notes from Underground

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel,Notes from Undergroundmarks 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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor is the author of 'Notes from Underground', published 2004 under ISBN 9781400041916 and ISBN 1400041910.