Description:
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a revolutionary novella featuring one of the most remarkable characters in all of literature.
Review Quotes:
"Notes from the Underground is still a modern book; it still can kick." -The New Yorker
"Hilarious yet disturbing." -The Sunday Times
"Dostoevsky published Notes from the Underground in 1864, establishing his reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia." -Rowan Williams, The Guardian
"Dostoyevsky's Underground Man . . . is perhaps the greatest reliably unreliable narrator in world fiction." -The New York Times
"It's a brilliant book, it's viciously funny, and it's so psychologically alive . . . it's one of the most remarkable criticisms of utopianism I've ever read . . . If you're interested in psychology, Dostoevsky is the person for you." -Jordan Peterson
"The most unflinching study of self-loathing in the literary canon." -The Irish Times
"Notes from the Underground, with its mood of intellectual irony and alienation, can be seen as the first modern novel . . . That sense of the meaningless of existence that runs through much of the twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoevsky's work." -Malcolm Bradbury
"Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn." -Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"[Dostoevsky] was a psychologist before psychology existed, and his observations were acute and universal." -DBC Pierre