Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Notes-from-Underground-by-Fyodor-Dostoevsky:Dostoevsky’s-most-revolutionary-novel, Notes-from-Underground marks-the-dividing-line-between-nineteenth–and-twentieth-century-fiction,and-between-the-visions-of-self-each-century-embodied.One-of-the-most-remarkable-characters-in-literature,-the-unnamed-narrator-is-a-former-official-who-has-defiantly-withdrawn-into-an-underground-existence.In-complete-retreat-from-society,-he-scrawls-a-passionate,-obsessive,self-contradictory-narrative-that-serves-as-a-devastating-attack-on-social-utopianism-and-an-assertion-of-man’s-essentially-irrational-nature.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.