Notes from Underground (English Version) Fyodor Dostoevsky - Mizan

“Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes.”

Uing the gloomy, horrid, and inward existential crisis of the spiteful Underground Man, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella Notes from Underground captures the current society’s predominant reliance on rigorous reasoning while also disdaining the natural state of mankind.

“I believe that with Notes from the Underground we reach the peak of Dostoevsky's career. I consider this book (and I am not alone) the capstone of his entire work.” — André Gide, Nobel Prize in Literature winner 1947.

Before there was the internet’s obsession with anti-hero, there was the Underground Man.

In a dark, suffocating room under the streets of St. Petersburg lives a man who has completely ghosted society. He is brilliant, fiercely intellectual, and utterly consumed by bitterness. He is forty years old, chronically cramped in his own head, and he has a confession to make: he is a sick man ... and he loves every single second of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s vision of psychological warfare returns in a striking new translation for a generation navigating the loudest, most connected, yet most isolating era in human history. Notes from the Underground is not a comforting story; it is a brutal, laugh-out-loud funny, and terrifyingly relatable mirror held up to our darkest impulses. It asks the ultimate modern question: In a world obsessed with toxic positivity, optimization, and doing what is "good for you," what happens when you choose to burn your own life down just to prove that you can?

Notes From The Underground first published in 1864 as part of journal Epoch. It is raw, unfiltered, and deeply essential timeless reading.

Part One: Underground

An intimate and provocative monologue in which the protagonist bares his thoughts. He attacks modern notions of science and rationality. He argues that humans are not robots who always choose the logical course; they often deliberately destroy themselves simply to prove they are free and sovereign over their own lives.

Part Two: Based on the Story of Wet Snow

The reader is transported back to the protagonist's youth, when he was still forced to interact with the outside world. Here, we witness how his neurotic mind falls apart in social reality. From his ridiculous attempt to exact revenge on a military officer who accidentally nudged him, to his utter devastation at a dinner with old friends who belittled him, to his emotional encounter with Liza, a young prostitute. When Liza offers him sincere love and redemption, the Underground Man responds with psychological cruelty, too fragile to accept sincerity.

First published in the Russian language by Epoch, St. Petersburg 1864, under the title Zapíski iz podpól?

Translated by Constance Garnett, first published by William Heinemann 1918, London

Penulis: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Penerbit: Bentang Pustaka, 2026

Kategori: Sastra

ISBN: 9786021210062

SKU: BRD25850

Bahasa: Inggris

Dimensi: 11 x 18 cm l Softcover

Tebal: 200 hlm | Bookpaper

Harga: 64.000