Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoevsky’s groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‚anthill‘ of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‚underground‘. The novel is divided into two parts: the first, a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique; the second, a powerful, at times absurdly comical account of the man’s breakaway from society and descent ‚underground.‘ The book’s extraordinary style – brilliantly violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted – shocked its first readers and still shocks many Russians today.
Unabridged edition with an interactive table of contents.
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