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Notes from underground book cover. 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. 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 underground is an 1864 novel by fyodor dostoevsky and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.

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The underground man concludes that for the man of conscious intelligence the best thing to do is to do nothing. One of the most remarkable characters in literature the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. The first calle umderground is about the guilt of enjoyment and suffering then moves into the nature of logic.

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. 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. Slavic including russian languages and literature.

Through her the underground man has the possibility of coming into touch with real humanity but being unable to escape from his own ego he needlessly and viciously insults liza. The second part in three sections is fumdamentally about ignoring revenge and about a dinner party with psychoanalytic imtricacies. The second part in three sections is fumdamentally about ignoring revenge and about a dinner party with psychoanalytic imtricacies.

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 embodi shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk depending on stock availability. Please consider this image only as a reference it will not always be the exact cover used in the edition of the published book. Notes from the underground is a novel in two parts.