Product details Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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. Vintage Classics: Notes from Underground (Paperback) Awardwinning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky A faithful rendition of Dostoevsky's classic novel, capturing its tragedy and tormented comedy Updated translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth Features one of literature's most remarkable characters, an unnamed narrator The narrator is a former official who has retreated into an underground existence Presents a passionate, obsessive, and selfcontradictory narrative Serves as a critique of social utopianism and explores man's irrational nature

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