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    <![CDATA[(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br/><br/>Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, <em>Notes from Underground</em> 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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em>]]>
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    <![CDATA[(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br/><br/>Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, <em>Notes from Underground</em> 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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I am a sick man... I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts.&quot;<br/><br/>I first read <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17876.Notes_From_Underground" title="Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky">Notes from Underground</a></em> as a very serious college student; then in my 30s in my merry <em>flaneur</em> stage. Reading it a third time in Pevear and Volokhonsky's excellent translation has bee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3715538">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Dostoevsky&#8217;s most revolutionary novel, <em>Notes from Underground</em> 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&#8217;s essentially irrational nature.<br/><br/>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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am trying to live my life as if I believed the protagonist of this book is deluded.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[dapet dg harga 2000 emas... seperti nemu harta karun ;)<br/><br/>Sekilas ceritanya mengingatkan saya pada <em>The Catcher In The Rye</em> yang sama-sama menceritakan individu yang menarik diri lingkungan sosial setelah ditolak oleh sistem sosial yang dia anggap penuh dengan kemunafikan, kepura-puraan, imit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58257725">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is about Fyodor Dostoevsky's views on life and what he thinks is right and wrong. The book is really confusing and most likely he will confuse you and make you think. He talks a great deal about psychology and what he thinks about what people think in their cabeza's. he says one thing but t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73564064">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br/><br/>Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, <em>Notes from Underground</em> 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overrated, antiquity.<br/> This is a short story, often published in collections. As a short story, it works. People dwell too much on too little content, as if it were some tight philosophical novel. <br/> The story presents some philosophies about life in the first part, and then a flashback to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76279909">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This, I do believe, is still my favorite book of all time.]]></body>
    
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