Notes from Underground

ISBN-13:	9780679734529
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/30/1994
Series:	Vintage Classics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	9,380
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

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in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.