Notes from the Underground

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

• ISBN13: 9780486270531
• ISBN10: 048627053X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780486114996
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-02-21
• Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary

The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz's acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers.

Author Biography

With his sympathetic portrayals of the downtrodden of 19th-century Russian society, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) exercised immense influence on modern writers. His novels featured profound philosophical and psychological insights that anticipated the development of psychoanalysis and existentialism.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. vii
Preface to the First Edition	p. ix
A Brief Note on the Translation	p. xi
The Text of Notes from Underground	p. 1
Backgrounds and Sources	p. 93
Selected Letters from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky (1859-64)	p. 95
[Socialism and Christianity]	p. 98
from Winter Notes on Summer Impressions	p. 99
from Russian Nights	p. 101
from "Hamlet of Shchigrovsk District"	p. 102
from What Is to Be Done?	p. 104
Responses	p. 123
Parody	p. 125
from "The Swallows"	p. 125
Notes from the Overfed	p. 126
Imitation/Inspiration	p. 130
The Child	p. 130
from The Invisible Man	p. 133
from We	p. 136
from "Erostratus"	p. 137
Criticism	p. 139
[Dostoevsky's Cruel Talent]	p. 141
[Thought and Art in Notes from Underground]	p. 145
[Dostoevsky and Nietzsche]	p. 148
[Discourse in Dostoevsky]	p. 152
Structure and Integration in Notes from the Underground	p. 162
Notes on the Uses of Monologue in Artistic Prose	p. 178
[Freedom in Notes from Underground]	p. 186
[The Pun of Creativity; Double Determination]	p. 195
The Formalistic Model: Notes from Underground	p. 201
Notes from Underground	p. 213
[The Symbolic Game]	p. 250
Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Chronology	p. 255
Selected Bibliography	p. 257
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