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Notes from Underground

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Notes from Underground (pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, tr. Zapíski iz podpólʹya), also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.

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Cover of: Notes from the underground
Notes from the underground
2012-09-15, LibriVox
in English
Cover of: Записки изъ подполья
Cover of: Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground
January 6, 2005, bnpublishing.com, BN Publishing
Audio CD
Cover of: Notes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground
2005-10-19, LibriVox
in English
Cover of: Notes d'un souterrain
Notes d'un souterrain
December 17, 1998, Flammarion
Mass Market Paperback
Cover of: Notes from underground
Notes from underground
1994-09, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Notes from underground
Notes from underground: a new translation, backgrounds and sources, responses, criticism
1989, Norton
in English and Russian - 1st ed.
Cover of: Notes from underground
Notes from underground
1982, University Press of America
in English
Cover of: Notes from the underground
Notes from the underground
October 1981, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Notes from underground
Notes from underground
1969, Crowell
in English

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Audio CD
Number of pages
100
Dimensions
4.9 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
Weight
0.8 ounces

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OL13057421M
ISBN 10
9562910040
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9789562910040
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