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“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“Notes from Underground” is a novella in two parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which was written in 1864, which is sometimes claimed to be the first existentialist work. In his dismal novella the author concentrates on the emotions, feelings and thoughts of an unnamed narrator, whose biography is rather scant. The only facts the reader is let to know are those of his having inherited some fortune, dismissed and retreated to “the underground”, which means that he doesn’t ever leave the four walls of his accommodation. The first part of this work is narrated in the form of a monologue and is devoted to the intellectual cogitations of the Underground Man, as the criticists call him, which have the most important philosophical issues as the main subject, including a rather harsh criticism of determinism. The second part is the story of the narrator’s life with several points, such as his obsession with a man whose behavior seems rather abusive, highlighted quite distinctively. The main emotional theme of the whole work is a kind of passive spite.

“The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.”—from the Introduction by Donald Fanger“I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man,” the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned.