Notes From Underground

Is Russia So Different Now 150 Years Later? Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. 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 personunreliable narrator and anti-hero. Get Your Copy Now.