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Notes From Underground

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099140115

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 145g

  • RRP: £8.99

Notes From Underground

  • Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY

Dostoevsky's genius is on display in this powerful existential novel.

The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground, is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099140115

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 145g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • You read every shimmering, tormented word, mesmerised. This is Dostoevsky in distillation, a prelude not just to his leading works, but to the entire 20th century... How is it possible to have a character who evokes aspects of Hitler and Pooter, who is hilarious yet disturbing, and both villain and victim? Because Dostoevsky was a genius, and the narrator of Notes From Underground his most protean character, with whom you never quite know how you stand

    Sunday Times

  • Dostoevsky's is a genuinely disembodied voice, speaking for all sufferers and victims

    Guardian

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