✍︎ About the Author · Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short-story writer and essayist born in 1821. His fiction is renowned for its psychological depth and its exploration of morality, faith, guilt, freedom and the contradictions of human behaviour. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot and Demons. Notes from Underground is often seen as an important bridge between his earlier work and the great philosophical novels of his later career. Dostoevsky died in 1881 and remains one of the most influential writers in world literature.
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Notes From the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground is a fierce and unsettling exploration of consciousness, freedom and self-contradiction. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s unnamed narrator is an isolated former civil servant who addresses the reader from his underground existence, reflecting bitterly on society, reason and his own failures. In the first part of the work, he attacks the idea that human behaviour can be reduced to logic or rational self-interest. In the second, he recalls humiliating episodes from his past that reveal his pride, insecurity, cruelty and desperate desire for connection. Darkly comic, psychologically intense and radically modern, Notes from Underground anticipates many of the questions later explored by existentialist writers. Its deeply unreliable narrator makes it one of Dostoevsky’s most challenging and influential works.
- Genre
- Philosophical Fiction / Psychological Fiction / Existentialism
- Binding
- Paperback
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN
- 978-93-80041-06-3
- Combo eligible
- Yes
✍︎ About the Author · Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short-story writer and essayist born in 1821. His fiction is renowned for its psychological depth and its exploration of morality, faith, guilt, freedom and the contradictions of human behaviour. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot and Demons. Notes from Underground is often seen as an important bridge between his earlier work and the great philosophical novels of his later career. Dostoevsky died in 1881 and remains one of the most influential writers in world literature.