Notes from Underground

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

In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels — Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes — moral, religious, political and social — that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works. Notes from the Underground, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction.

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Philosophy, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1864

About the author

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.

See also:
Russian → Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
French → Fédor Dostoïevski
French → Fiodor Dostoïevski
Spanish → Fiódor Dostoyevski
Portuguese → Fiódor Dostoiévski

Reviews

[Aleksandra Ilieva]

Колку повеќе обичниот човек се труди да “ископа” дел од својата душа – ќе наиде или на голем срам, или на успешен обид да обузди сопствена мисла во даден момент. Подземјето се носи во себе – секогаш, само не се вади на виделина секаде – внатрешната огорченост лесно наоѓа нови жртви. Секој може да го негира подземјето во себе, но тоа е просто навидум. Свесноста за неговото постоење бара постојано себеиспитување и посебна вештина на делкање на егото.

[Nikolai Dochev]

Обожавам

[Nikolche Petrovski]

Занимливи белешки на еден лик, кој се избрукал минимум два пати.