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Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground Man, who represents the voice of his generation. An emotional, paranoid knot of contradictions, the spiteful narrator is also desperate to join a society he loathes, if only to prove his superiority to it. Exploring themes of free will versus determinism, Dostoyevsky's existential exploration was written to challenge increasingly popular Western egoist philosophies. In the Underground Man, he found the embodiment of the antihero, whose behavior - like all human behavior - defies rationalization. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature's most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Revised edition: Previously published as Notes from the Underground, this edition of Notes from the Underground (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. 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 Àpropos of the Wet Snow , and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator.

“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.

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. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.

“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.