They may not always be in your face bombastic and they may not be loud, but they take whatever trait they have to (or past) its logical extreme to the point of ridiculous, and it serves a purpose. Big Ham: The thing with a lot of Dostoevsky's characters is that they work on extremes.Dostoevsky was actually using the character as an example of what he saw as the degradation of the human condition. Author Tract: Noticeably averted - the author's opinions fell just about opposite of the Underground Man's.Anti-Hero: The character calls himself exactly that ("антигерой" in Russian).The novel's divided into two parts: first, the notes ("Underground"), and second, an account of the humiliating events which led to his self-imposed seclusion ("Apropos to Wet Snow").ĭeals with themes of Existentialism (it is considered one of the first existentialist novels), free will, and the modern disconnect from others. Depressed by the city and his own inadequacy, this mysterious Underground Man begins to write a rambling, philosophical journal - the Notes from Underground. Notes from Underground is an 1864 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about an unnamed social outcast living in St. ".what is man without desire, without will, and without wishes if not a stop in an organ pipe?"
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