Notes from Underground - by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis Generally referred to by reviewers as the Underground Man, the novella offers itself as a passage from the memoirs of a retired government worker residing in St. Petersburg, a bitter, solitary, anonymous narrator. Though the initial section of the novella has the shape of a monologue, the narrator's approach to addressing his reader is somewhat dialogized. Mikhail Bakhtin said in the Underground Man's confession, "There is not a single monologically strong, undissociated word." Every word the Underground Man speaks reflects the words of someone with whom he is in an intense mental quarrel. The Underground Man attacks modern Russian philosophy, specifically Nikolay Chernyshevsk…