{"product_id":"notes-from-underground-by-fyodor-dostoevsky-9781857152715","title":"Notes From Underground","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am a sick man...I am a wicked man.\u003c\/em\u003e With this sentence, Dostoevsky began a work which marks the frontier not only between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, but between two centuries' visions of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the unnamed narrator of \u003cem\u003eNotes From Underground\u003c\/em\u003e is a multiplicity of selves, each at war with the others—all at war with everything else. A former official who has retreated from society into an underground existence, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, and self-contradictory narrative which serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard versions, give us a remarkably faithful edition of Dostoevsky's classic, which conveys both the tragedy and the tormented comedy of the original Russian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46509287538924,"sku":"9781857152715","price":29.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5911443482849.jpg?v=1748769221","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/notes-from-underground-by-fyodor-dostoevsky-9781857152715","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}