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Notes From Underground: Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky Paperback – 21 Oct. 1993

by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator)

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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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009914011X
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978-0099140115
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1st
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Vintage Classics
Publication date

21 Oct. 1993
Language

English
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12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm
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176 pages
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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

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Dostoevsky is one of the greatest literary talents the world has seen in the past two centuries. Notes From Underground is arguably his most idiosyncratic masterpiece

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Classics; 1st edition (21 Oct. 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 009914011X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099140115
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm

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Kaywire

A really engrossing "rant."

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I never thought a few years ago that I'd be reviewing a book by Dostoevsky and saying it was a cracking good read. But there you go - in the hands of very good translators that's what you have here. I think translators are the unsung heroes of our times. It's said that it is the first existential novel - I had to look that up - and it seems that I have read nearly all on the list without really knowing what it means - it appears that I like a really good rant. I have another one to add to the list - Knut Hansum's "Hunger." Now that's a rant and a half.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2017

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Fantastic book, surprisingly easy to read and very funny.

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Can’t wait to read it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2018

Only time will tell

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2015

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Two Twos Four But Man Is Still Man

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2008

"Give me man" was Oblomov's cry in Goncharov's novel Oblomov. That is exactly the same clamor from Dostoyevsky's narrator. Well then, who is man? Who am I - mind or spirit? Should my life follow reason's path or should I follow my heart? This reminds me so much of Nietszche's Human, All Too Human. The narrator is extremely self-critical. He's mean and malicious, he tells lies, takes bribes and is more intelligent than anyone else around. He refutes rational economic man and just celebrates man - the whole man complete with his wilful (and perhaps destructive?) desires. Incidentally, Dostoyevsky revisits the arguments of reason versus spirit in Crime and Punishment. The last third of this book is about the narrator's seduction of a prostitute. This part is a wee bit dull after the dizzying and dazzling pace of what goes before.

Overall, an impressive story.

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