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This was a very exciting project for two reasons; one being the chance to make a cover for a classic book by an important author, and two being that it was TodaVia publisher's edition, which is a publisher known for its beautifully designed covers.
The book consists of excerpts from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (referred to as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St.Petersburg. It is regarded as a very gloomy story.
TodaVia only requested that the cover appealed to people who had already read the book and that it was a bit more sunny than previous editions
Upon researching about the book, I found that the main character looked out into the world from his underground by a crack at the street level. I translated this scene with a black wall with a ragged crevice in which we can see two bitter eyes spying on us. I opted for this very heavy woodcut illustration that I feel transmits the resentment of the main character. The blue shines bright with the black and alludes to the cold, snowy setting of the book.