Notes from Underground

<DIV>One of the most profound and most unsettling works of modern literature Notes from Underground (first published in 1864) remains a cultural and literary watershed. In these pages Dostoevsky unflinchingly examines the dark mysterious depths of the human heart. The Underground Man so chillingly depicted here has become an archetypal figure -- loathsome and prophetic -- in contemporary culture.<br/><br/>This vivid new rendering by Boris Jakim is more faithful to Dostoevsky's original Russian than any previous translation; it maintains the coarse vivid language underscoring the visceral experimentalism that made both the book and its protagonist groundbreaking and iconic.</DIV>