In "Notes from Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, we are not talking about revolutionary personalities, a secret struggle for some ideas or about a curtain of secrets and mysteries.The hero of the "underground", the author of the notes, is ...
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The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's “What Is to Be Done?” The second part of the book is called "Àpropos of ...
Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values.
Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values.
Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed.
Misanthropy, disturbing episodes, existential squalor, and unpleasant interior portrayal turn the novel into a double-edged tool: both to humiliate and be humiliated; both to suffer and inflict suffering.
The Cinema of Emir Kusturica: Notes from the Underground is the first book on the Sarajevan film-maker to be published in English.
At a time when many Catholics are questioning their church, Donald Cozzens sheds light on the widespread "underground church that cherishes the vision of a renewed and reformed church preached by Pope John XXIII, a church open to the ...
A dramatic monologue in which the narrator leaves himself open to ridicule and reveals more of his weaknesses than he intends, this influential short novel lays the ground work for the political, religious, moral and political ideas that ...
" As Cozzens writes, this is "a church that wants to be simply adult--a church not of children or adolescents hesitant to think and reflect on the lessons of human experience. . .
The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary.
Notes from the Underground
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On the surface this is a story of one man's rant against a corrupt, oppressive society, but this philosophical book also explores the deeper themes of alienation, torment, and hatred.
Notes from Underground, Zapíski iz podpól'ja, also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld while Notes from Underground is the most literal translation) (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor ...
Notes from the Underground
As well as the full text of the work itself and an informative introduction, this edition provides background materials that offer personal and intellectual context for the work.
The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.