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Notes from Underground - (Everyman's Library Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Hardcover)

Notes from Underground - (Everyman's Library Classics) by  Fyodor Dostoevsky (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, <i>Notes from Underground</i> 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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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 full 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. <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize <p/><i>The Brothers Karamazov<br></i>"One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original." -<i>New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now-and through the medium of [this] new translation-beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader." -<i>New York Review of Books</i> <p/><i>Crime and Punishment<br></i>"The best [translation] currently available...An especially faithful re-creation...with a coiled-spring kinetic energy... Don't miss it." -<i>Washington Post Book World<br></i><br>"Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English...The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured...The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard version." -<i>Chicago Tribune </i> <p/><i>Demons<br></i>"The merit in this edition of <i>Demons</i> resides in the technical virtuosity of the translators...They capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life." -<i>New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"[Pevear and Volokhonsky] have managed to capture and differentiate the characters' many voices...They come into their own when faced with Dostoevsky's wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patterns...A capital job of restoration." -<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>With an Introduction by Richard Pevear<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, <i>Poor Folk </i>(1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the "silent treatment" for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Petersburg only a full ten years after he had left in chains. <p/>His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to complete <i>Crime and Punishment </i>(1866), <i>The Idiot</i> (1868-69), <i> The Possessed </i>(1871-72), and <i>The Brothers Karamazov </i>(1879-80). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.

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