First
published in 1964, this novel is considered as one of Dostoyevsky’s most famous
novels. Notes from Underground narrates the story of an unmade narrator
who had gone underground as a protest against social utopia. This self-opposing
account examines the moral and intellectual fluctuations of the narrator and
man’s inherent illogical nature.
Some
of the dialogues in the novel are as follows:
· .- ‘I swear,
gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness- a real thorough-going illness’
(p. 10).
· - Man is
so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation (p. 29).
· -Reason
satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation
of the whole life (p.32).
· -Narrating
about his office environment he mentions about the officials in his office who ‘talked
about excise duty; about business in the senate, about salaries, about
promotions, about His Excellency, and the best means of pleasing him, and so on’
(p. 64).
This
novel has a very different writing style and plot. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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