A brilliant, lively translation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel

One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel is a former state official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of mans essentially irrational nature.