Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864 · Novel
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It is a seminal work for existentialist literature, introducing the concept of the 'underground man' who rejects societal norms and rational self-interest.
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This novella is presented as the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, and unnamed narrator, an ex-civil servant living in St. Petersburg. He rails against utopian ideals, rational egoism, and the deterministic view of human nature, asserting the human desire for free will and suffering.
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