Notes From Underground

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

2025

First Published

107

Number of Pages

3H15M

Audio Length

Notes from Underground is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. This is presented as an essay by a bitter, isolated, anonymous author (usually known to critics as the Underground Man) to a retired civil servant living in St. Louis. Petersburg What Is to Be Done? attack the text.The second half of the book, called "Àpropos of the Wet Snow," covers several events that seem to deteriorate and sometimes give rise to an underground character acting as a first-person, narrator who cannot be trusted the other, Dostoyevsky again confronts the idea of free will, Kirillov's no suicide in The Demons The character builds a negative argument to validate free will against determinism Notes from Underground Beginning of Dostoevsky's move from psychological and sociological fiction to fiction based on both life and human experience in crisis and the making of war, and this is what defines human history Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called Dostoevsky “the only psychologist, how anyway, from whom I had everything to learn.

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Author · 228 books

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as multiple of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. As such, he is also looked upon as a philosopher and theologian as well. (Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)