Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered the author's first masterpiece - the book in which he "became" Dostoevsky - and is seen as the source of all his later works. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose acclaimed translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment have become the standard versions in E...show more
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An emotionally provoking read, written with passion and self-loathing, refraining from any self-compassion whatsoever as he continuously points out his own faults and traits seemingly unable to stop himself from using ragged honesty despite multiple attempts at lying. Wrought with shame and indignance and carried out until the bitter end of his tale as if possessed to do so by his own conscience.
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