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Notes from the Underground
148 pages, Paperback
Published September 30, 2024
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
(Russian)
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.
(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.
(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)
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January 10, 2026
— “an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is the fool who becomes anything!”
*What if you could say anything you wanted, without the fear of consequences? What if you could reject all the rules and values of society, and live by your own logic? What if you could be free?.*
NFU is the prelude of Crime & Punishment by the same author, and excellently (yet, hard to digest at first) draws out the mind of a nihilist psychopath whose very soul was exhumed by countless humiliations he endured, and the unslakable fire of vengeance it kindled inside him.
I had a chat with a close friend while I was reading NFU, about the interconnection of these two (NFU & CnP) pieces and how Fyodor was trying to create an authorial universe of characters, for someone who has read CnP first, NFU would serve as looking back in time, and vice versa it would be the quest of finding “what happened next!?”. Readers should not miss out on either of these two.
This piece demands patience at the start, and a restraint to be shown by the time you are at the end of it. You might find yourself thinking what is wrong with this guy, he is the Midas of Doom, everything he touches he burns with vengeance and spite, he does not deserve love.
I feel particularly bad for Liza, and hatred for narrator’s dinner mates and butler, Apollon. But it was his own thirst for seeking power, and control over his miserable life and conditions which led to his foreseeable doom, him becoming the Voice of the Underground.
This is the life of the Underground Man, a tormented and contradictory soul who confides his dark thoughts and feelings in a series of notes. He is a rebel, a nihilist, a paradox. He is the voice of the underground, the voice of a man who dares to challenge everything.
*What if you could say anything you wanted, without the fear of consequences? What if you could reject all the rules and values of society, and live by your own logic? What if you could be free?.*
NFU is the prelude of Crime & Punishment by the same author, and excellently (yet, hard to digest at first) draws out the mind of a nihilist psychopath whose very soul was exhumed by countless humiliations he endured, and the unslakable fire of vengeance it kindled inside him.
I had a chat with a close friend while I was reading NFU, about the interconnection of these two (NFU & CnP) pieces and how Fyodor was trying to create an authorial universe of characters, for someone who has read CnP first, NFU would serve as looking back in time, and vice versa it would be the quest of finding “what happened next!?”. Readers should not miss out on either of these two.
This piece demands patience at the start, and a restraint to be shown by the time you are at the end of it. You might find yourself thinking what is wrong with this guy, he is the Midas of Doom, everything he touches he burns with vengeance and spite, he does not deserve love.
I feel particularly bad for Liza, and hatred for narrator’s dinner mates and butler, Apollon. But it was his own thirst for seeking power, and control over his miserable life and conditions which led to his foreseeable doom, him becoming the Voice of the Underground.
This is the life of the Underground Man, a tormented and contradictory soul who confides his dark thoughts and feelings in a series of notes. He is a rebel, a nihilist, a paradox. He is the voice of the underground, the voice of a man who dares to challenge everything.
December 15, 2024
Everyone is a harlot. Are you self-conscious?
August 9, 2025
Various phases of a nameless man who got stuck up over the underground portrays problems isn’t just for the people who lives underu
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