Notes From Underground Book

The first edition of the novel was published in 1864 and was written by fyodor dostoyevsky.

Notes from underground book. Russia history 1801 1917 fiction subject. 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. The book was published in multiple languages including english consists of 96 pages and is available in paperback format.

Notes from underground is an 1864 novel by fyodor dostoevsky and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. One of the most remarkable characters in literature the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.

It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter isolated unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in st. Notes from the underground language. 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.

Dostoevsky s most revolutionary novel notes from underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth and twentieth century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. Slavic including russian languages and literature.