Notes From Underground [Paperback]

'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .'

In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky's disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.

GBA groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. Introduced by DBC Pierre

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevskywas born in Moscow in 1821. He has written many works of fiction includingCrime and Punishment,The IdiotandThe Brothers Karamazov. He died in St. Petersburg on 9th February 1881.

Natasha Randallis a writer and literary translator. Her translations includeWeby Yevgeny Zamyatin andA Hero of Our Timeby Mikhail Lermontov. Her writing has appeared in theTimes Literary Supplement, New York Times,Los Angeles Book Reviewand more.

This excellent Canongate Canons edition has an enlightening and entertaining introduction by DBC Pierre . . . Dostoevsky chips away at complex human motivation with persuasive stylistic tools, succeeding in being hilarious and heart-rending in a single sentence (after all, mankind is a comical construction ), captured in this beautiful translation by Natasha Randall. It's through elegantly excavating the particularities of his era that Dostoevsky strikes upon timeless truths, and with perspicacious analysis of behaviour, tunnels through to hidden depthsAn author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul . . . [Notes From Undergroundis] an awe- and terror-inspiring example of this sympathyNotes from Undergroundis still a modern book; it still can kickNotes Frol3&