Notes from Underground, The Grand Inquisitor

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Matlaw, Ralph; Garnett, Constance

• ISBN13: 9780452285583
• ISBN10: 0452285585
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-07
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

Dostoevsky's influence on the modern literary mind is unrivaled in its scope and vitality. Nowhere does his art appear in so quintessential a form as in Notes from Underground, certainly one of the most revolutionary and original works in world literature. Nowhere is his thought presented with such authority as in "The Grand Inquisitor," an episode of central importance taken from his last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. In both these vital works Dostoevsky confronts the reader with the tragic grandeur of man -- indeed, with a whole philosophy of tragedy -- the tragedy of the individual and freedom, the tragedy of historical progress, the tragedy of universal evil.

Author Biography

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Notes from Underground	p. 1
The Grand Inquisitor	p. 123
Appendix	p. 149
Chernyshevsky: Excerpts from What Is to Be Done?	p. 151
Dostoevsky
Excerpts from Winter Notes on Summer Impressions	p. 187
Excerpts from Dostoevsky's Letters	p. 197
Shchedrin: The Swallows	p. 207
Dostoevsky: Mr. Shchedrin, or, Schism among the Nihilists	p. 219
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