Norton critical edition.

Includes excerpts from Dostoevsky's letters to his brother Mikhail, 1859-1864, notebooks, 1864-1865, and Winter notes on summer impressions

The story of one man's rant against a corrupt, oppressive society

Selected Letters from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky (1859-64) -- [Socialism and Christianity] / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- from Winter Notes on Summer Impressions / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- from Russian Nights / V.F. Odoevsky -- from "Hamlet of Shchigrovsk District" / I.S. Turgenev -- from What Is to Be Done? / N.G. Chernyshevsky -- Parody -- from "The Swallows" / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin -- Notes from the Overfed / Woody Allen -- Imitation/Inspiration -- Child / Robert Walser -- from The Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- from We / Yevgeny Zamyatin -- from "Erostratus" / Jean-Paul Sartre -- [Dostoevsky's Cruel Talent] / Nikolai K. Mikhailovsky -- [Thought and Art in Notes from Underground] / Vasily Rozanov -- [Dostoevsky and Nietzsche] / Lev Shestov -- [Discourse in Dostoevsky] / M.M. Bakhtin -- Structure and Integration in Notes from the Underground / Ralph E. Matlaw -- Notes on the Uses of Monologue in Artistic Prose / Victor Erlich -- [Freedom in Notes from Underground] / Robert Louis Jackson -- [The Pun of Creativity; Double Determination] / Gary Saul Morson -- Formalistic Model: Notes from Underground / Richard H. Weisberg -- Notes from Underground / Joseph Frank -- [The Symbolic Game] / Tzvetan Todorov