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Notes from the Underground

Notes from the Underground

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PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 153084018X
ISBN13: 9781530840182
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 1 2016
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. 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 the Wet Snow, and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.

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