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Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground... Read Full Overview

"Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author's account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition are excerpts from V. F. Odoevksy's "Russian Nights" and I. S. Turgenev's "Hamlet... Read Full Overview

About Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground

"The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts that hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are... Read Full Overview

Memorias del Subsuelo Fi dor Dostoievski

Una novela que pone al descubierto los rincones m s inquietantes de la condici n humana.

"It may seem paradoxical to speak of such insights as liberating, or to find in the Underground Man's impassioned rejection of rational humanitarianism a call to arms. Yet each age we live through as individuals demands a certain kind of book- just as each era thieves the... Read Full Overview

Notes from the underground is considered to be the first of Dostoyevsky's existentialist novels. It is based on the memoirs of an unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg. One of Dostoyevsky's most compelling works, filled with intrigue, depth and... Read Full Overview

One of the most profound and most unsettling works of modern literature, Notes from Underground (first published in 1864) remains a cultural and literary watershed. In these pages Dostoevsky unflinchingly examines the dark, mysterious depths of the human heart. The Underground... Read Full Overview

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. New introduction.

Notes from Underground is considered one of Dostoyevsky's most powerful and original stories and marks the starting point of his literary maturity.

"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... Read Full Overview

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket

Beneath the bustling streets of 19th-century Russia lies the confessional of a man who has retreated into the shadows, both physically and emotionally. The narrator, a former civil servant, delivers... Read Full Overview

Memorias del subsuelo -tambi?n traducida como Apuntes del subsuelo o Notas del subsuelo- puede considerarse como el pre?mbulo al ?viejo Dostoyevski? y sus ?novelas de ideas? de mayor prestigio universal (Crimen y castigo, Los demonios, El idiota y Los hermanos Karam?zov).La obra... Read Full Overview

One of the most profound works of modern literature, 'Notes from Underground' (first published in 1864) remains a cultural and literary masterpiece. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for his psychological works of fiction. His characters and plots all carry psychosomatic troubles... Read Full Overview