Notes From Underground

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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Dostoevsky's genius is on display in this powerful existential novel. The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground, is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.

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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky stands as a towering achievement in 19th-century literature, widely recognized as a foundational work of existential fiction. Published in a 2010 edition featuring acclaimed translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, this powerful novel spans 162 pages and plunges readers directly into the turbulent psychology of its unnamed narrator. Known simply as the Underground Man, this figure is a minor mid-19th-century Russian official who has retreated from the world into a miserable, isolated subterranean existence. The text is divided into two distinct parts, functioning primarily as a desperate apology and confession from a man at war with himself, society, and the very laws of nature and reason. In the first part of the book, which gives the novel its name, the narrator addresses an invisible, hypothetical audience from his damp and dingy room. He is bitter, intelligent, hyper-conscious, and thoroughly contradictory. Here, Dostoevsk

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