Notes from the Undergound

Dostoevsky's best-known and most groundbreaking work appears in this new edition in a revision of the "Constance Garnett" translation with an introduction by Charles Guignon and Kevin Aho. The introduction places the underground man in the historical context of nineteenth-century modernity's movemen [...]
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Dostoevsky's best-known and most groundbreaking work appears in this new edition in a revision of the "Constance Garnett" translation with an introduction by Charles Guignon and Kevin Aho. The introduction places the underground man in the historical context of nineteenth-century modernity's movement toward secularism, examines his psychological dynamics, and identifies the developments in Russian intellectual life that the work parodies and criticises. It further points up the contribution made by this novella - considered by Dostoevsky the key to his mature works - to the author's later 'novels of ideas'.