- Published: 7 December 1993
- ISBN: 9780099140115
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $19.99
Notes From Underground
Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
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- Published: 7 December 1993
- ISBN: 9780099140115
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $19.99
You read every shimmering, tormented word, mesmerised. This is Dostoevsky in distillation, a prelude not just to his leading works, but to the entire 20th century... How is it possible to have a character who evokes aspects of Hitler and Pooter, who is hilarious yet disturbing, and both villain and victim? Because Dostoevsky was a genius, and the narrator of Notes From Underground his most protean character, with whom you never quite know how you stand
Sunday Times
Dostoevsky's is a genuinely disembodied voice, speaking for all sufferers and victims
Guardian