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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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You read every shimmering, tormented word, mesmerised. This is Dostoevsky in distillation, a prelude not just to his leading works, but to the entire 20th century... How is it possible to have a character who evokes aspects of Hitler and Pooter, who is hilarious yet disturbing, and both villain and victim? Because Dostoevsky was a genius, and the narrator of Notes From Underground his most protean character, with whom you never quite know how you stand * Sunday Times *
Dostoevsky's is a genuinely disembodied voice, speaking for all sufferers and victims * Guardian *

Notes From Underground

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    A Paperback / softback by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 21 October 1993
      ISBN-13 9780099140115
      978-0099140115
      ISBN-10 009914011X
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      Fiction Books by Fyodor Dostoevsky

      Description

      Book 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''.



      Trade Review
      You read every shimmering, tormented word, mesmerised. This is Dostoevsky in distillation, a prelude not just to his leading works, but to the entire 20th century... How is it possible to have a character who evokes aspects of Hitler and Pooter, who is hilarious yet disturbing, and both villain and victim? Because Dostoevsky was a genius, and the narrator of Notes From Underground his most protean character, with whom you never quite know how you stand * Sunday Times *
      Dostoevsky's is a genuinely disembodied voice, speaking for all sufferers and victims * Guardian *

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