Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
The story of one man's rant against a corrupt, oppressive society.
" It is considered to be one of the first existentialist novels. With this book, Dostoevsky challenged the ideologies of his time, like nihilism and utopianism.
The novelette contains two quite different parts.
Written in 1864, this classic novel recounts the apology and confession of a minor nineteenth-century official, an almost comical account of the man's separation from society and his descent "underground" Published in 1864, Notes from ...
Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system.
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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...
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Dostoevsky's genius is on display in this powerful existential novel.
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel.
"A born storyteller with perfect pitch." - New York Times This volume features two of Bogosian's more unsettling works.
Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.
From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyThe apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political c ...
Traces the history of zine publishing from its origins by science fiction cults, its growth with the 1960s counter culture, and its attachment to punk rock
In these two short works, Russia's greatest novelists ruthlessly tackle the subject of their mid-life crisis.
Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Embraces moral, religious, political, and social themes. Authoritative Constance Garnett translation....
... man of the nineteenth century, who furthermore has the particular misfortune of living in St Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city of the entire earthly sphere. (Cities occur as both intentional and unintentional.) ...
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
" It is considered to be one of the first existentialist novels. With this book, Dostoevsky challenged the ideologies of his time, like nihilism and utopianism.
Living in Washington, D.C., decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, Jan recalls his life as a Czech dissident and his doomed love affair with the beautiful and mysterious Betka.