Fyodor Dostoevsky



Notes from the Underground

Part Two
Epigram



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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

Notes from the Underground

Translated by Constance Garnett

Part Two

Epigram


When from dark error’s subjugation
My words of passionate exhortation
Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free;
And writhing prone in thine affliction
Thou didst recall with malediction
The vice that had encompassed thee:
And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting
By recollection’s torturing flame,
Thou didst reveal the hideous setting
Of thy life’s current ere I came:
When suddenly I saw thee sicken,
And weeping, hide thine anguished face,
Revolted, maddened, horror-stricken,
At memories of foul disgrace.

– Nekrassov (translated by Juliet Soskice)




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Part Two
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