Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground (Critical Studies in Russian Literature) (Critical Studies in Russian Literature)

Paperback, 128 pages

English language

Published by Bristol Classical Press.

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978-1-85399-343-5
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Notes from Underground (pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, tr. Zapíski iz podpólʹya), also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and …

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Subjects

  • Literary studies: 19th century
  • Other prose: 19th century
  • Russian
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Russian & Former Soviet Union
  • Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union