Notes from the Underground (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ISBN 10: 048627053X / ISBN 13: 9780486270531

Published by Dover Publications, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes from the Underground (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 048627053X
• ISBN 13: 9780486270531
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

With his sympathetic portrayals of the downtrodden of 19th-century Russian society, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) exercised immense influence on modern writers. His novels featured profound philosophical and psychological insights that anticipated the development of psychoanalysis and existentialism.