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Notes from Underground: Introduction by Richard Pevear Tots_Gift_Guide or key shifts inDostoevskys most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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