'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, DBC Pierre |
| Publisher: | Canongate Canons an imprint of Canongate Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Canons |
| Genres: |
Classics Translated Fiction |