Notes from Underground (Paperback, 1st Vintage classics ed)

Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered the author's first masterpiece - the book in which he "became" Dostoevsky - and is seen as the source of all his later works. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose acclaimed translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment have become the standard versions in English, now give us a superb new rendering of this early classic. Presented as the fictional apology and confession of the underground man - formerly a minor official of mid-nineteenth-century Russia, whom Dostoevsky leaves nameless, as one critic wrote, "because 'I' is all of us" - the novel is divided into two parts: the first, a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique; the second, a powerful, at times absurdly comical account of the man's breakaway from society and descent "underground". The book's extraordinary style - brilliantly violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted - shocked its first readers and still shocks many Russians today. This magnificent new translation captures for the first time all the stunning idiosyncrasy of the original.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1900
First published:	August 1994
Authors:	F. M. Dostoevsky
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	136
Edition:	1st Vintage classics ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-73452-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	0-679-73452-X
Barcode:	9780679734529

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