I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man the irascible voice of a namelessnarrator cries out. And so from underground emerge the passionate confessionsof a suf... » 

I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man the irascible voice of a namelessnarrator cries out. And so from underground emerge the passionate confessionsof a suffering man the brutal selfexamination of a tormented soul thebristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one ofthe greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground publishedin 1864 marks a tuming point in Dostoevskys writing it announces the moralpolitical and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime AndPunishment The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov And it remains to thisday one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despairever penned. The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of ourcentury...confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the mostsheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction. from theIntroduction by Donald Fanger «