Notes from Underground

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Original Work

Notes from the Underground

Translators

Richard Pevear·Larissa Volokhonsky

Language

English

Year

1994

Publisher

Vintage

Country

United States

Pages

136

ISBN

9780679734529

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Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.— Google Books