Notes From Underground
What if the most dangerous prison wasn’t around you—but inside your own mind? Notes From Underground plunges into the fractured psyche of a nameless outcast whose razor-sharp intellect dissects society’s illusions, even as his self-loathing traps him in a spiral of spite and despair. As he oscilliates between rebellion and paralysis, mocking the world and himself, one chilling question remains: Will enlightenment save him… or devour what’s left of his soul?
- 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in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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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