'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .'
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky's disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.
ISBN: | 9781786899002 |
Publication date: | 2nd April 2020 |
Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher: | Canongate an imprint of Canongate Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 160 pages |
Series: | Red Classics |
Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Fiction in translation |