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Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction.

Russia -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.

Everyman's library ; 271.

9781400041916 (hc.)

xxxi, 126 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published in 1864.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxiv)

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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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 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. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.

Russian fiction -- Translations into English.

Pevear, Richard, 1943-

Volokhonsky, Larissa.

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