Notes From Underground
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Notes from Underground
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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.
Notes from Underground, the Grand Inquisitor
"Dostoevsky's influence on the modern literary mind is [universal] in its scope and vitality. Nowhere does his art appear in so quintessential a form as in Notes from Underground, certainly one of the most revolutionary and original works in world literature. Nowhere is his thought presented with such authority as in 'The Grand Inquisitor,' an episode of central importance taken from his last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. In both these vital works Dostoevsky confronts the reader with the tragic grandeur of man--indeed, with a whole philosophy of tragedy--the tragedy of the individual and freedom, the tragedy of historical progress, the tragedy of universal evil. Both Notes from Underground and 'The Grand Inquisitor' are presented here in the Constance Garnett translations scrupulously revised by the editor. In addition, of particular interest and importance is the unique background material for Notes from Underground selected and translated by Professor Matlaw, much of it previously unavailable in English. This material includes passages from Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?, selections from Dostoevsky's Letters and Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Shchedrin's satire on the Notes called 'The Swallows,' and Dostoevsky's equally satiric rebuttal, 'Mr. Shchedrin, or, Schism among the Nihilists.'"--from the back cover.
Notes from the Underground
Dostoevsky's underground man is a psychologically tourtured poor clerk, who muses on his 'sickness' and the detested notions of self-interest. Scornful of himself and of others, he recalls finding love at a brothel - but it is a love by his very nature he cannot accept, and so debases instead.