Notes From Underground (Bantam Classics)

Notes From Underground (Bantam Classics)

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. <i>Notes From Underground</i>, published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in <i>Crime And Punishment</i>, <i>The Idiot</i>, and <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>. And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned.<br><br>“The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century…confirm the status of <i>Notes from Underground</i> as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.”<br>–from the Introduction by Donald Fanger