‘I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too...’

In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society.

The underground man’s manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky’s disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2020
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages: 160
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1786899000
ISBN 13: 9781786899002