"It may seem paradoxical to speak of such insights as liberating,
or to find in the Underground Man's impassioned rejection of
rational humanitarianism a call to arms. Yet each age we live
through as individuals demands a certain kind of book- just as each
era thieves the last with a magpie's lust for the gewgaws of
thought. Oddly enough, now I come to look at Notes again- and
examine it in the round- I discover that my revised impression of
it as a text at once jejune and cynical, callow as well as wise, is
not, perhaps, too far from reality." -Will Self ""(Dostoevsky)...
is the man more than any other who has created modern prose, and
intensified it to its present-day pitch." -James Joyce Notes from
the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered
to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this
radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator
in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and
withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight
into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of
the most provocative work of literature ever written. In the first
half of the novel, the unnamed narrator, a cynical recluse in
1860's St. Petersburg, attacks the ideologies of inherent laws of
self-interest; he is crippled with self-loathing, and bound by his
contempt of certain political attitudes of his day. He welcomes any
psychic or physical pain in his life as he believe it rails against
the complacency of modern society. The second half, entitled
"Apropos of the Wet Snow", the narrator relates his alienated
relationships he experiences with others, including old school
chums and a prostitute named Liza, who is only demeaned in his
misanthropic mind. A singular document of the depravity of human
consciousness, this is one of the most powerful pieces of
literature ever written. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Notes from the
Underground is both modern and readable.
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