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Notes from underground

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.
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  • Publisher description

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Additional Authors
  • Pevear, Richard, 1943-
  • Volokhonsky, Larissa.
Description
xxiii, 136 pages; 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.
Series Statement
Vintage classics
Uniform Title
  • Zapiski iz podpolʹi͡a. English
  • Vintage classics.
Alternative Title
Zapiski iz podpolʹi͡a.
Subject
  • 1801-1917
  • Employees
  • Political fiction
  • Russia > History > 1801-1917 > Fiction
  • Russia > Officials and employees > Fiction
  • Russie > Histoire > 1801-1917 > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Russia
  • Russia > History > Fiction
  • Russia > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Political fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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.
ISBN
  • 067973452X
  • 9780679734529
  • 067942315X
  • 9780679423157
LCCN
92032581
OCLC
  • ocm26586767
  • 26586767
  • SCSB-3064522
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries