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Notes From Underground: Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (author), Larissa Volokhonsky (translator), Richard Pevear (translator)

Paperback Published on: 04/11/2021; Language: English, Russian (Original language of a translated text)

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Synopsis

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'.

Publisher information

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099140115
Number of pages: 176
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 12 mm
Weight: 128g
Languages: English, Russian (Original language of a translated text)

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A dark, despairing but sometimes hilarious ramblings of a man who lives under floorboards.

The first part of the novel reads as a philosophical rambling about the nature of the human condition. The narrator finds it to be one of doom, a seeking o... READ MORE