Book Notes From The Underground

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.

Book notes from the underground. Iso 8859 1 start of this project gutenberg ebook notes from the. 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. Notes from the underground author.

Published in 1864 notes from underground is considered the author s first masterpiece the book in which he became dostoevsky and is seen as the source of all his later works. English character set encoding. T he underground of the mind is the treacherous terrain into which dostoevsky here delves deep exposing its most buried fears and desires.

Table of contents this book and many more are available. Public domain in the usa. 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 underground man concludes that for the man of conscious intelligence the best thing to do is to do nothing. Read notes from the underground by author fyodor dostoevsky free online. Russia officials and employees fiction category.

Summary read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. 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.

One of the most remarkable characters in literature the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. September 13 2008 ebook 600 release date. Russia history 1801 1917 fiction subject.