Book Notes From The Underground

Slavic including russian languages and literature.

Book notes from the underground. The novel was first published in russia in 1864 and. One of the most remarkable characters in literature the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. The underground man concludes that for the man of conscious intelligence the best thing to do is to do nothing.

Iso 8859 1 start of this project gutenberg ebook notes from the. His justification for writing these notes from underground is that every man has some memory which he wishes to purge from his being and the underground man is going to tell his most oppressing memory. English character set encoding.

Russia history 1801 1917 fiction subject. Notes from underground is an 1864 novel by fyodor dostoevsky and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. Public domain in the usa.

Summary read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. Notes from the underground language. The underground man dislikes both the laws of science and the direct man s ready acceptance of them.

Russia officials and employees fiction category. The direct man for example accepts unquestioningly the proof that man is descended from a monkey the underground man recognizes that it is better to understand it all to recognize it all but he refuses to be reconciled to conclusions. The first part of the story is told in monologue form through the underground man s diary and attacks contemporary russian philosophy especially nikolay chernyshevsky s what is to be done.

Table of contents this book and many more are available. September 13 2008 ebook 600 release date. T he underground of the mind is the treacherous terrain into which dostoevsky here delves deep exposing its most buried fears and desires.