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Notes from the Underground

Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. A minor official brutally scrutinizes himself and decides to go "underground," away from society. This is a strange account of a man relentless in his examination of the world and his own soul, but it is also occasionally comical.

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  • "Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. A minor official brutally scrutinizes himself and decides to go "underground," away from society. This is a strange account of a man relentless in his examination of the world and his own soul, but it is also occasionally comical."@en
  • "Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. A minor official brutally scrutinizes himself and decides to go "underground," away from society. This is a strange account of a man relentless in his examination of the world and his own soul, but it is also occasionally comical."
  • "Contains selections from: The House of the Dead, Baklushkin's Story, Akulka's Husband, In the Hospital, Notes from the Underground, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Afterword."@en
  • "An excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, retired veteran of the Russian civil service."@en
  • "A bitter, misanthropic man living alone in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 1860s retires from the Russian civil service after inheriting some money and writes a confused and often contradictory set of memoirs or confessions describing and explaining his alienation from modern society and its nineteenth century utilitarianism as well as his own remorse and self-loathing."
  • "A bitter, misanthropic man living alone in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 1860s retires from the Russian civil service after inheriting some money and writes a confused and often contradictory set of memoirs or confessions describing and explaining his alienation from modern society and its nineteenth century utilitarianism as well as his own remorse and self-loathing."@en
  • "Notes from Underground (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is considered by many to be the world's 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 Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The main issue for the Underground Man is that he has reached a point of ennui and inactivity. [description adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_from_Underground]."@en
  • "Dostoevsky's disturbing and groundbreaking novella appears in this new annotated edition with an Introduction by Charles Guignon and Kevin Aho. An analogue of Guignon's widely praised Introduction to his 1993 edition of "The Grand Inquisitor," the editors' Introduction places the underground man in the context of European modernity, analyzes his inner dynamics in the light of the history of Russian cultural and intellectual life, and suggests compelling reasons for our own strange affinity for this nameless man who boldly declares, "I was rude and took pleasure in being so.""@en
  • "In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov--Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes--moral, religious, political and social--that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works. Notes from the Underground, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction."@en
  • "Semi-autobiographical account of a young man who spurns the rule of God and man and faces the problems inherent in denying authority while needing to explain order."
  • "A former official withdraws into an underground existence and writes a narrative attacking social utopianism."@en
  • "Notes from Underground is a study of a single character, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives, withdraws from that society into the underground. On the surface this is a story of one man's rant against a corrupt, oppressive society, but this philosophical book also explores the deeper themes of alienation, torment, and hatred."@en
  • "Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel Notes from Underground is considered the world's first existentialist novel. It is presented as the memoirs of an unnamed narrator, a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg, whose rambling stories and insights are a deep existentialist attack on emerging Western philosophies."@en
  • "A translation of the classic written at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century follows the narrator's withdrawal from his life as an official to the underground, where he makes passionate and obsessive observations on social utopianism and the irrational nature of humankind."
  • "Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant. A dramatic monologue in which the narrator leaves himself open to ridicule and reveals more of his weaknesses than he intends, this influential short novel lays the ground work for the political, religious, moral and political ideas that are explored in Dostoevsky's later works."@en
  • "Dostoevsky classic novel of a man's internal life and distorted perspectives on the world around him."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction, Russian"@en
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  • "Notes from the underground ; White nights ; Ridiculous man ; The house of the dead"
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