Notes From Underground (NCE) - Softcover

Dostoevsky, F

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393957446 ISBN 13: 9780393957440

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1989

Synopsis

Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground".

About this title

From the Publisher

A new translation of the most important of Dostoevsky’s shorter works.

Dostoevsky's Underground Man is a combination of the psychologically tortured poor clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his early stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of the great novels of ideas of his later career, with their ongoing central concern of the nature of free will.

From the Author

'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 jejeune and cynical, callow as well as wise, is not, perhaps, too far from the reality. ' - Will Self

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0393957446
• ISBN 13: 9780393957440
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256