Notes from the Underground

This Norton Critical Edition contains Michael Katz's new translation of the 1863 novel, introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. Backgrounds and Sources, also freshly translated by the editor, includes excerpts from Dostoevsky's letters and notebooks and from "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," as well as a substantial extract from N. G. Chernyshevsky's novel What Is to Be Done?, the utilitarianism of which Dostoevsky replies to in Notes from Underground. Since ...