Notes From Underground
From the shadows of a St. Petersburg basement, an unnamed man rails against the world—and himself—in a voice as bitterly lucid as it is tragically human. Notes From Underground is a searing confession of alienation, pride, and self-destruction, where reason falters and freedom becomes a curse. Can a man be truly free if he cannot bear the weight of his own choices? At once ferocious and philosophical, this is a portrait of a mind at war with society, with morality, and with its own twisted desires. In the silence beneath civilization, what truths echo back?
- Originally Published: April 1864
- Publisher: Wordsworth Classics, 2015
- Genre: Fiction, Novella
- Pages: 168
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781840225778
- Access: Members
Description
One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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.
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