Research Catalog

Title

Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pevear, Richard, 1943-
• Volokhonsky, Larissa.

Description

xxiii, 136 p.; 23 cm

Summary

A faithful 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.

Uniform Title

Zapiski iz podpolʹi︠a︡. English

Alternative Title

Zapiski iz podpolʹi︠a︡.

Subject

• 1801-1917
• Employees
• Russia > History > 1801-1917 > Fiction
• Russia > Officials and employees > Fiction
• Russia

Genre/Form

• Political fiction.
• Fiction.
• History.

Note

• "A Borzoi Book."
• "This translation has been made from the Russian text of the Soviet Academy of Sciences edition, volume five (Leningrad, 1973)"--Verso t.p.
• "A portion of this work was originally published in Epoch"--Verso t.p.

Contents

Selected Letters from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky (1859-64) -- [Socialism and Christianity] / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- from Winter Notes on Summer Impressions / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- from Russian Nights / V.F. Odoevsky -- from "Hamlet of Shchigrovsk District" / I.S. Turgenev -- from What Is to Be Done? / N.G. Chernyshevsky -- Parody -- from "The Swallows" / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin -- Notes from the Overfed / Woody Allen -- Imitation/Inspiration -- The Child / Robert Walser -- from The Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- from We / Yevgeny Zamyatin -- from "Erostratus" / Jean-Paul Sartre -- [Dostoevsky's Cruel Talent] / Nikolai K. Mikhailovsky -- [Thought and Art in Notes from Underground] / Vasily Rozanov -- [Dostoevsky and Nietzsche] / Lev Shestov -- [Discourse in Dostoevsky] / M.M. Bakhtin -- Structure and Integration in Notes from the Underground / Ralph E. Matlaw -- Notes on the Uses of Monologue in Artistic Prose / Victor Erlich -- [Freedom in Notes from Underground] / Robert Louis Jackson -- [The Pun of Creativity; Double Determination] / Gary Saul Morson -- The Formalistic Model: Notes from Underground / Richard H. Weisberg -- Notes from Underground / Joseph Frank -- [The Symbolic Game] / Tzvetan Todorov.

Call Number

*QDM 94-1814

ISBN

• 067942315X
• 9780679423157

LCCN

92032581

OCLC

26586767

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

Title

Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Imprint

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Publisher description

Contributor biographical information

Chronological Term

1801-1917

Added Author

Pevear, Richard, 1943-

Volokhonsky, Larissa.

Research Call Number

*QDM 94-1814