Notes from Underground, however, is not only an arresting and profound introduction to these works, but to the 20th century, which recognized as its own the problems of reason and irrationality, freedom and self-will, human dignity and degradation" (Robert L.
Letters from the Underworld, best known and cited herein as Notes from Underground, "lays out the basic social, moral-philosophical and religious positions that Dostoevsky will develop in the five great novels- Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, Raw Youth and Brothers Karamazov. I'm only a realist'" (Bloom, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 14).
Dostoevsky may have explained that, too, better than anyone, when he scribbled to himself in one of his innumerable notebooks: 'They call me a psychologist. "The unerring accuracy of Dostoevsky's psychology of modern-and postmodern-man placed him far ahead of not only the artists but also the philosophers of his age. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition in English of Dostoevsky's defining work that carved the path for his five great novels, titled here Letters from the Underworld, later known as Notes from Underground, its narrator ranked as "one of the great literary creations… like Hamlet, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Faust," together in an exceptional Everyman Library volume featuring the first editions in English of two more Dostoevsky works-The Gentle Maiden and The Landlady-each with the translation of Charles Hogarth, in original gilt-stamped cloth. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 7-inches), original gilt-stamped red cloth, pictorial endpapers.
(DOSTOEVKSY, Fyodor) DOSTOIEFFSKY, Fedor. "DOSTOEVSKY'S IMPACT ON THE MODERN LITERARY MIND IS UNRIVALED IN ITS SCOPE AND VITALITY": RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF DOSTOEVSKY'S SEMINAL 1864 WORK, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, HERE IN ITS FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH AS LETTERS FROM THE UNDERWORLD, TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME WITH THE FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH OF HIS 1876 STORY, GENTLE MAIDEN, AND HIS 1847 NOVELLA, THE LANDLADY
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