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"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

"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

A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who disillusioned... 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

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.

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

Memorias del Subsuelo Fi dor Dostoievski

Notes from Underground is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. This is presented as an essay by a bitter, isolated, anonymous author (usually known to critics as the Underground Man) to a retired civil servant living... 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