Notes From Underground
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- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2004
Summary
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th- 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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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 full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152715 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152719 |
| Author: | Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 132mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Richard Pevear
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November 1821. He had six siblings, and his mother died in 1837 and his father in 1839. He graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering in 1846 but decided to change careers and become a writer. His first book, Poor Folk, did very well, but on 23rd April 1849 he was arrested for subversion and sentenced to death. After a mock execution, his sentence was commuted to hard labor in Siberia, where he developed epilepsy. He was released in 1854. His 1860 book, The House of the Dead, was based on these experiences. In 1857 he married Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva. After his release, he adopted more conservative and traditional values and rejected his previous socialist position. In the following years, he spent a lot of time abroad, struggled with an addiction to gambling, and fell deeply into debt. His wife died in 1864, and he married Anna Grigoryeva Snitkina. In the following years, he published his most enduring and successful books, including Crime and Punishment (1865). He died on 9th February 1881.
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