This 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. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant selections from Dostoevsky's letters to his brother (written 1859-64); an excerpt on socialism and Christianity from one of Dostoevsky's notebooks; an excerpt from "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author's account of a formative visit to the West; an excerpt from N. G. Chernyshevsky's novel What Is to Be Done?, the utilitarian themes of which Dostoevsky addresses in Notes from Underground; and, new to the Second Edition, excerpts from V. F. Odoevsky's "Russian Nights" and I. S. Turgenev's "Hamlet of Shchigrovsk District." Since its publication, Notes from Underground has been emulated and parodied. In assembling varied responses to the text, Michael Katz links this seminal novel to the theme of the underground man in works of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Woody Allen, Robert Walser, Ralph Ellison, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Jean-Paul Sartre. "Criticism" includes a wide range of interpretations by both Russian and western critics from the nineteenth and twentieth cen-turies, among them Nikolai Mikhailovsky, Vasily Rozanov, Lev Shestov, M. M. Bakhtin, Ralph Matlaw, Victor Erlich, Robert Louis Jackson, Gary Saul Morson, Richard H. Weisberg, Joseph Frank, and Tzvetan Todorov. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also in-cluded. *If you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to reach out to me 😊 Happy reading! 💐!*

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