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Notes From

Underground

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes From Underground, is set in 1860's St. Petersburg in Russia. It is about "the underground man". A character archetype which was created in and named after this novel, but has became a mainstay of existential literarture ever since. We never learn our protagonists name, but he is generally reffered to as Underground Man. The book is divided into two parts, the first part contains a series of diary entries of the narrator at the age of forty, in which he explains the theories of his anatagonistic view of society. The second part is set earlier in the 1840's, it recounts a series of events which are pivotal in defining the man and his views.

Themes of loneliness and paranoia

run through the story.

Alone

Seperate

Extreme

Paranoia

Underground Man

Zverkov

Liza

The Underground Man is a very conflicted character. He, is extremely intelligent and well read, but feels that this causes his social ineptitude and misanthropic view of life. He simultaniously craves and dreads social interaction, and can be prone to acts of kindness and extreme cruelty.

in a

crowd

society

from

Mode of transport

Male and female's fashion

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