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Notes from Underground: Introduction by Richard Pevear

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)Series:Everyman's Library ClassicsPublish date:2004-03-23Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9781400041916ISBN-10:1400041910UPC:9781400041916Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, PsychologicalSize:8.19 x 5.23 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC7HG22J5T

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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9781400041916ISBN-10:1400041910UPC:9781400041916Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, PsychologicalSize:8.19 x 5.23 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC7HG22J5T
Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the "silent treatment" for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Petersburg only a full ten years after he had left in chains.

His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to complete Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-69), The Possessed (1871-72), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.
Publisher: Everyman's Library

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