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Notes From Underground
  • Published: 7 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9780099140115
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $19.99
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Notes From Underground

Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Paperback
7 Dec 1993
EBook
1 May 2010
Paperback
13 July 2011
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'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Rowan Williams, Guardian

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY

Dostoevsky's genius is on display in this powerful existential novel.

The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground, is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
  • Published: 7 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9780099140115
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $19.99
Categories:

Praise for Notes From Underground

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