Notes From Underground

(book Jacket Status: Jacketed)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 One Of The Most Remarkable Characters In Literature, The Unnamed Narrator Is A Former Official Who Has Defiantly Withdrawn Into An Underground Existence.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. From The Hardcover Edition.