Notes from the Underground

Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Dostoevsky's Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his "Notes from the Underground" is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his "sickness" and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier. Scornful of others and of himself, he recounts a party he attended at which, unwelcome, he got drunk and acted scandalously, the visit to a brothel that ensued, and the chance arrival there of love--love which, of course, by his very nature he cannot accept, and so debases. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest, most influential prose writers of all time.

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Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize "The Brothers Karamazov "One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original." -"New York Times Book Review "It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now-and through the medium of [this] new translation-beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader." -"New York Review of Books "Crime and Punishment "The best [translation] currently available...An especially faithful re-creation...with a coiled-spring kinetic energy... Don't miss it." -"Washington Post Book World "Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English...The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured...The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard version." -"Chicago Tribune "Demons "The merit in this edition of "Demons resides in the technical virtuosity of the translators...They capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life." -"New York Times Book Review "[Pevear and Volokhonsky] have managed to capture and differentiate the characters' many voices...They come into their own when faced with Dostoevsky's wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patterns...A capital job of restoration." -"Los Angeles Times ith an Introduction by Richard Pevear

General Fields

  • : 9781843911265
  • : Hesperus Press Ltd
  • : Hesperus Press Ltd
  • : 0.195
  • : 01 September 2006
  • : 196mm X 125mm X 13mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 October 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • : Paperback
  • : annotated edition
  • : 891.733
  • : 150