Notes from the Underground

Name: Notes from the Underground
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By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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eBook | 16 August 2022

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"But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."

Presented as a memoir of the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of a 40-year-old man living in St. Petersburg, Notes from the Underground is widely believed to be the first example of an existential novel. Volatile and often irrational, the narrator addresses an imaginary audience with his thoughts on the ills of humanity, and how they've contributed to his failures. Whether plotting revenge over a perceived insult, arguing with school friends, or mocking the ideals of Utopia, the narrator attacks both his own character and the society that shaped him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky dives deep into the human experience, reflecting the political and social instability of 1860s Russia in the instability of the narrator's thoughts. Written in 1864, the novella was hugely influential on the philosophers of the time.

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