Notes from the Underground

Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction.

Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground."

Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky  

ISBN 10: 048627053X
ISBN 13: 9780486270531
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Publication: February 1992
Edition: Special Value