{"product_id":"notes-from-underground-9780451529558","title":"Notes from Underground","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life, to the anxious antihero of \u003ci\u003eNotes From Underground\u003c\/i\u003e--a man who both craves and despises affection--this volume and its often-tormented characters showcase Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as \"an 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\"--and \u003ci\u003eNotes From Underground\u003c\/i\u003e as \"an awe-and-terror-inspiring example of this sympathy.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTranslated and with an Afterword by Andrew R. MacAndrew\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Ben Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky\u003c\/b\u003e (1821-81) was educated in Moscow and at the School of Military Engineers in St. Petersburg, where he spent four years. In 1844 he resigned his Commission in the army to devote himself to literature. In 1846, he wrote his first novel, which won immediate critical and popular success. At the age of twenty-seven he was arrested for belonging to a socialist group and condemned to death, but at the last moment, his sentence was commuted to prison in Siberia. In 1859, he was granted full amnesty and allowed to return to St. Petersburg. In the fourteen years before his death on January 28, 1881, Dostoyevsky produced his greatest works including \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Possessed\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eBen Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Wire and String\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories, and the novel \u003ci\u003eNotable American Women\u003c\/i\u003e. Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Anchor Book of New American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, he is on the faculty of Columbia University and has received a Whiting Award and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeny's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBomb\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGrand Street\u003c\/i\u003e, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrew R. MacAndrew \u003c\/b\u003e(1911-2001) was a professor at the University of Virginia and an acclaimed translator of Russian literature. In addition to fiction by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, and others, he translated \u003ci\u003eA Precocious Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e by poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Signet Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50590888460562,"sku":"9780451529558","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_575b8bbc-c5a2-4105-b562-e14cdc943d23.jpg?v=1737298402","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/notes-from-underground-9780451529558","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}