FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKYDostoevsky''s genius is on display in this powerful existential novel.The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official Notes from Underground is a half-desperate half-mocking political critique and a powerful at times absurdly comical account of man''s breakaway from society and descent ''underground''.