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 one of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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 complete 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

Notes from Underground

Notes from Underground

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