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message 1: by Gerrick (last edited Mar 31, 2025 12:30PM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Gerrick | 274 comments Requesting to update book description based on Amazon posting. Current description is incorrect because it refers to another translator (Pevear).

ASIN: B091669F8V
GR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091669F8V
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About Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground


“The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts that hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. . . . Men are at the same time villains and saints; their acts are at once beautiful and despicable. . . . It is all the same to him whether you are noble or simple, a tramp or a great lady. Whoever you are, you are the vessel of this perplexed liquid, this cloudy, yeasty, precious stuff, the soul.” —Virginia Woolf


Gerrick | 274 comments Bumping this up


message 3: by Emily (last edited Mar 31, 2025 12:51PM) (new)

Emily | 17471 comments I removed the part about the other translator and left the first part.


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