Notes from Underground

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Notes from Underground

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ISBN: 9780679734529
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky / Richard Pevear / Larissa Volokhonsky / Donald Fanger
translator: Larissa Volokhonsky / Richard Pevear / 拉丽莎·沃罗洪斯卡娅
publishing house: Vintage Classics
publication date: 1994 -9
language: English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 12.00
number of pages: 136

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Fyodor Dostoevsky / Richard Pevear    translator: Larissa Volokhonsky / Richard Pevear

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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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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 complete 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.

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