Notes from Underground

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

• ISBN13: 9781909399099
• ISBN10: 1909399094
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-11-20
• Publisher: Roads Publishing
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Summary

Notes from the Underground is celebrated as the first existentialist novel; it is the starting point for the sense of meaninglessness that runs through much of twentieth-century writing, including that of Kafka and Beckett. Dostoyevsky's most revolutionary work is comprised of the rambling memories of a bitter unnamed narrator who has withdrawn entirely from society into an underground existence. It is a probing and speculative analysis of the political and philosophical questions that were pertinent in Russia and Europe at the time.