![]() ![]() He’s self-important, insufferable, misanthropic, obnoxious, rude, pathetic and downright cringeworthy- and yet, on some level, I related to him. “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”Īs I said at the beginning of this review: the unnamed narrator of Notes from Underground is utterly unhinged. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.“ My Thoughts One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. ![]() “Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. ![]()
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