Notes from Underground (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Patrick Maxwell (Contribution by), Constance Garnett (Translator)

Overview

Notes from Underground is widely considered the forerunner of modernist literature and one of Dostoevsky's greatest literary achievements. The novel recounts the thoughts and encounters of a civil servant known only as The Underground Man who has quit his job and lives in a basement flat on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, surviving on a small inheritance. His humiliation turns to an inward-turning aggression that further reinforces his alienation from mainstream society.

Includes a contribution by Patrick Maxwell, the letter that Dostoevsky wrote to his brother on the day he was to be executed, a biographical timeline, and suggested reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781957240060
Publisher:	Warbler Classics
Publication date:	12/16/2021
Pages:	124
Sales rank:	957,162
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian short story writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature. His works are broadly thought to have anticipated Russian symbolism, existentialism, expressionism, and psychoanalysis. He also influenced later writers and philosophers including Anton Chekov, Hermann Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Jean-Paul Sartre. His books have been translated into more than one hundred and seventy languages.

Patrick Maxwell is an English writer and journalist. He writes on literature for The Big Issue and The London Magazine, and is a regular commentator for TheArticle magazine and Classical Music Daily. He lives near Oxford.

Editorial Reviews

"The only psychologist from whom I had something to learn...[Dostoevsky] ranks amongst the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"He is the man more than any other who has created modern prose, and intensified it to its present-day pitch." -James Joyce

"Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading." -Virginia Woolf

"His psychologic sense is overwhelming and visionary." -Knut Hamsun

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