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Notes from Underground & The Double

Notes from Underground & The Double

ClassicsLiterary Fiction
Pages
136
Published
1864
Language
English

Synopsis

A feverish monologue delivered by an unnamed man, the Underground Man, whose bitter intellect and self-destructive impulses form one of the great psychological portraits in literature. He rails against a rationalist world that has rendered human will obsolete, arguing instead for the right to act irrationally just to prove he can — even if it destroys him.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkMelancholicThought-Provoking

Genres

Classics Literary Fiction Philosophy Psychology Historical Fiction

About the author

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, essayist and philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists in Russian and world literature. Born in Moscow, his life was transformed by four years of imprisonment and exile in Siberia after his involvement with the Petrashevsky Circle, an experience that shaped the psychological depth of his later fiction. His major novels — including Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons...

Characters

The Underground ManProtagonist

An unnamed, bitter, and self-consciously intelligent narrator who rails against modern rationalism while indulging in a compulsive need to assert his will through irrational acts.

All characters in Notes from Underground & The Double

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