ISBN Notes From Underground book English Paperback 176 pages

“The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status ofNotes from Undergroundas one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.”—from the Introduction by Donald Fanger

“I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man,” the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature.Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky’s writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale inCrime And Punishment,The Idiot, andThe Brothers Karamazov. And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned.

Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his…