Notes from Underground: A Norton Critical Edition
The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers.\ "Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author’s account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition are excerpts from V. F. Odoevksy’s "Russian Nights" and I. S. Turgenev’s "Hamlet of Shchigrovsk District." In...
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The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers.BooknewsThis revised Norton Critical Edition is based on Michael Katz's translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. After the complete text of the novel, a section on background and sources offers selections from Dostoevsky's letters to his brother, some of his writings on socialism and Christianity and on his trip to the West, and excerpts from writings by Dostoevsky's contemporaries. A section on responses offers parodies and works of imitation by writers including Woody Allen, Ralph Ellison, and Jean-Paul Sartre. There are also critical interpretations by both Russian and Western critics from the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes a chronology. Katz teaches Russian at Middlebury College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionA Brief Note on the TranslationThe Text of Notes from Underground1Backgrounds and Sources93Selected Letters from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky (1859-64)95Socialism and Christianity98From Winter Notes on Summer Impressions99From Russian Nights101From "Hamlet of Shchigrovsk District"102From What Is to Be Done?104Responses123From "The Swallows"125Notes from the Overfed126The Child130From The Invisible Man133From We136From "Erostratus"137Criticism139Dostoevsky's Cruel Talent141Thought and Art in Notes from Underground145Dostoevsky and Nietzsche148Discourse in Dostoevsky152Structure and Integration in Notes from the Underground162Notes on the Uses of Monologue in Artistic Prose178Freedom in Notes from Underground186The Pun of Creativity; Double Determination195The Formalistic Model: Notes from Underground201Notes from Underground213The Symbolic Game250Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Chronology255Selected Bibliography257
\ BooknewsThis revised Norton Critical Edition is based on Michael Katz's translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. After the complete text of the novel, a section on background and sources offers selections from Dostoevsky's letters to his brother, some of his writings on socialism and Christianity and on his trip to the West, and excerpts from writings by Dostoevsky's contemporaries. A section on responses offers parodies and works of imitation by writers including Woody Allen, Ralph Ellison, and Jean-Paul Sartre. There are also critical interpretations by both Russian and Western critics from the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes a chronology. Katz teaches Russian at Middlebury College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
