Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R. (Ed.) Katz, Michael R. Katz
ISBN-13: 9780393976120, ISBN-10: 0393976122
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: July 2000
Edition: 2nd Edition
Michael R. Katz, is C. V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author of The Literary Ballad in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction. He has translated and edited the Norton Critical Editions of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Children. He has also translated Alexander Herzen’s Who Is to Blame?, N. G. Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done?, Dostoevsky’s Devils, Druzhinin’s Polinka Saks, Artsybashev’s Sanin, and Jabotinsky’s The Five.
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.
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. 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 Edition | ||
Preface to the First Edition | ||
A Brief Note on the Translation | ||
The Text of Notes from Underground | 1 | |
Backgrounds and Sources | 93 | |
Selected Letters from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky (1859-64) | 95 | |
Socialism and Christianity | 98 | |
From Winter Notes on Summer Impressions | 99 | |
From Russian Nights | 101 | |
From "Hamlet of Shchigrovsk District" | 102 | |
From What Is to Be Done? | 104 | |
Responses | 123 | |
From "The Swallows" | 125 | |
Notes from the Overfed | 126 | |
The Child | 130 | |
From The Invisible Man | 133 | |
From We | 136 | |
From "Erostratus" | 137 | |
Criticism | 139 | |
Dostoevsky's Cruel Talent | 141 | |
Thought and Art in Notes from Underground | 145 | |
Dostoevsky and Nietzsche | 148 | |
Discourse in Dostoevsky | 152 | |
Structure and Integration in Notes from the Underground | 162 | |
Notes on the Uses of Monologue in Artistic Prose | 178 | |
Freedom in Notes from Underground | 186 | |
The Pun of Creativity; Double Determination | 195 | |
The Formalistic Model: Notes from Underground | 201 | |
Notes from Underground | 213 | |
The Symbolic Game | 250 | |
Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Chronology | 255 | |
Selected Bibliography | 257 |