The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. Preface to the Second Edition vii Preface to the First Edition ix A Brief Note on the Translation xi The Text of Notes from Underground 1(92) Backgrounds and Sources 93(30) Selected Letters from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhial Dostoevsky (1859--64) 95(3) Socialism and Christianity 98(1) Fyodor Dostoevsky From Winter Notes on Summer Impressions 99(2) Fyodor Dostoevsky From Russian Nights 101(1) V. F. Odoevsky From ``Hamlet of Schigrovsk Distrt'' 102(2) I. S. Turgenev From What Is to Be Done? 104(19) N. G. Chernyshevsky Reponses 123(16) Parody 125(1) From ``The Swallows'' 125(1) M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Notes from the Overfed 126(4) Woody Allen Imitation/Inspiration 130(1) The Child 130(3) Robert Walser From The Invisible Man 133(3) Ralph Ellison From We 136(1) Yevgeny Zamyatin From ``Erostratus'' 137(2) Jean-Paul Sartre Criticism 139(116) Dostoevsky's Cruel Talent 141(4) Nikolai K. Mikhailovsky Thought and Art in Notes from Underground 145(3) Vasily Rozanov Dostoevsky and Nietzsche 148(4) Lev Shestov Discourse in Dostoevsky 152(10) M. M. Bakhtin Structure and Integration in Notes from the Underground 162(16) Ralph E. Matlaw Notes on the Uses of Monologue in Artistic Prose 178(8) Victor Erlich Freedom in Notes from Underground 186(9) Robert Louis Jackson The Pun of Creativity; Double Determination 195(6) Gary Saul Morson The Formalistic Model: Notes from Underground 201(12) Richard H. Weisberg Notes from Underground 213(37) Joseph Frank The Symbolic Game 250(5) Tzvetan Todorov A Chronology 255(2) Fyodor Dostoevsky Selected Bibliography 257