Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A contradictory narrator challenges reassuring explanations of reason, self-interest, and the desire for recognition. An isolated former official addresses an imagined audience with contradictory arguments, bitter memories, and attacks on rational explanations of human behavior. His voice exposes the conflict between wanting recognition and resisting dependence. Dostoevsky's short novel explores wounded pride, self-consciousness, and the unsettling possibility that people may reject their own apparent interests.
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Notes from Underground
An isolated former official addresses an imagined audience with contradictory arguments, bitter memories, and attacks on rational explanations of human behavior. His voice exposes the conflict between wanting recognition and resisting dependence. Dostoevsky's short novel explores wounded pride, self-consciousness, and the unsettling possibility that people may reject their own apparent interests.
Why read it?
A contradictory narrator challenges reassuring explanations of reason, self-interest, and the desire for recognition. Explore Alienation, Free will and Self-consciousness in this book.
Edition details
- Author / creators: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Publisher: Vintage
- Language: English
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- Edition publication year: 1994
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Book Details
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 176
- Publication year
- 1994
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