Notes From Underground Book

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 book. Russia history 1801 1917 fiction subject. 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. Public domain in the usa.

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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. Russia officials and employees fiction category.

The book was published in multiple languages including english consists of 96 pages and is available in paperback format. Notes from the underground language. 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.

Notes from underground is an 1864 novel by fyodor dostoevsky and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. The first edition of the novel was published in 1864 and was written by fyodor dostoyevsky.