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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 book depository. Notes from underground is an 1864 novel by fyodor dostoevsky and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. Notes from underground by fyodor dostoevsky paperback 14 75 ships from and sold by book depository us. 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.
Notes from the underground then aside from its own compelling qualities offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Dostoevsky s most revolutionary novel notes from underground marks the dividing line between 19th and 20th century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied.
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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. Crime and punishment by fyodor dostoyevsky paperback 6 99.
Notes from underground by fyodor dostoevsky 2009 03 05 mass market paperback jan. I can t lie it was hard to read at first as dostoyevsky is so intense with his moral messages in this book less noticeable in crime and punishment making that a more accessible read however i found this so brilliant for the weight it holds in philosophy history psychology and. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.
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