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...
Notes from Underground is considered one of Dostoyevsky's most powerful and original stories and marks the starting point of his literary maturity.
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground...
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author's account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition are excerpts from V. F. Odoevksy's "Russian Nights" and I. S. Turgenev's "Hamlet...
One of the most profound works of modern literature, 'Notes from Underground' (first published in 1864) remains a cultural and literary masterpiece. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for his psychological works of fiction. His characters and plots all carry psychosomatic troubles...
"It may seem paradoxical to speak of such insights as liberating, or to find in the Underground Man's impassioned rejection of rational humanitarianism a call to arms. Yet each age we live through as individuals demands a certain kind of book- just as each era thieves the...
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated...
About Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground "The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts that hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are...
Dostoevsky's disturbing and groundbreaking novella appears in this new annotated edition with an Introduction by Charles Guignon and Kevin Aho. An analogue of Guignon's widely praised Introduction to his 1993 edition of "The Grand Inquisitor," the editors' Introduction places...
Memorias del subsuelo -tambi?n traducida como Apuntes del subsuelo o Notas del subsuelo- puede considerarse como el pre?mbulo al ?viejo Dostoyevski? y sus ?novelas de ideas? de mayor prestigio universal (Crimen y castigo, Los demonios, El idiota y Los hermanos Karam?zov).La obra...
I say, in earnest, that I should probably have been able to discover even in that a peculiar sort of enjoyment-the enjoyment, of course, of despair; but in despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness...
Notes from the underground is considered to be the first of Dostoyevsky's existentialist novels. It is based on the memoirs of an unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg. One of Dostoyevsky's most compelling works, filled with intrigue, depth and...
Memorias del subsuelo, tambi n conocida en espa ol como Apuntes del subsuelo, es una novela del autor ruso Fi dor Mij ilovich Dostoyevski. Fue publicada en 1864 y es considerada una de las obras clave en la literatura rusa. Fue escrita en un momento en el que el autor padec a...