"Long live the underground!" Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky renders the story of a man who is disenchanted with society and has withdrawn into an underground existence. The unnamed narrator explains his views through a series of journal notes and fragments of his diary. The book is split into two parts. The first part is a diary kept by him describing his life which highlights his views on the world and his hatred for it. The second part contains his ...
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"Long live the underground!" Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky renders the story of a man who is disenchanted with society and has withdrawn into an underground existence. The unnamed narrator explains his views through a series of journal notes and fragments of his diary. The book is split into two parts. The first part is a diary kept by him describing his life which highlights his views on the world and his hatred for it. The second part contains his interactions with various people which subsequently led to his nihilistic philosophy about life.
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A fantastic read. The outcast narrator gives the reader a glimpse into an unexpectedly familiar world filled with embarassing encounters, contradictions, and thoughts that we all have but don't wish to admit to them. Part I consists of the narrator's thoughts and notes about life in the so-called "underground" and how he got there. In Part II, called a Propos of the Wet Snow, he describes a vivid memory from the past that teaches us more about the narrator, and, as we now are familiar with his mind, about how his thoughts are manifested through action. Here we meet the narrator from the point of view of other characters, and begin to understand why he subsides alone in the underground.