{"product_id":"notes-from-the-underground","title":"Notes from the Underground","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered the author's first masterpiece - the book in which he \"became\" Dostoevsky - and is seen as the source of all his later works. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose acclaimed translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment have become the standard versions in English, now give us a superb new rendering of this early classic. Presented as the fictional apology and confession of the underground man - formerly a minor official of mid-nineteenth-century Russia, whom Dostoevsky leaves nameless, as one critic wrote, \"because 'I' is all of us\" - the novel is divided into two parts: the first, a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique; the second, a powerful, at times absurdly comical account of the man's breakaway from society and descent \"underground.\" The book's extraordinary style - brilliantly violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted - shocked its first readers and still shocks many Russians today. This magnificent new translation captures for the first time all the stunning idiosyncrasy of the original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels -- \n\u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Possessed\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov -- \u003c\/i\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly fascinating \n\u003ci\u003eNotes from the Underground\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \n\u003ci\u003eNotes from the Underground\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dostoyevsky, Fyodor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 1992-02-21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiction \/ Classics|Fiction \/ World Literature \/ Russia - 19th Century|Fiction \/ Psychological\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubjects:\u003c\/b\u003e History|Political fiction|Russia|Translations into English|Officials and employees|1801-1917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486270531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eASIN:\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSKU:\u003c\/b\u003e SP-9780486270531\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52371892207897,"sku":"SP-9780486270531","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/0380\/5209\/files\/9780486270531_spiral.png?v=1778437263","url":"https:\/\/westbindery.com\/products\/notes-from-the-underground","provider":"West Bindery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}