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Dostoevsky's Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his "Notes from the Underground" is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his "sickness" and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier. Scornful of others and of himself, he recounts a party he attended at which, unwelcome, he got drunk and acted scandalously, the visit to a brothel that ensued, and the chance arrival there of love--love which, of course, by his very nature he cannot accept, and so debases. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest, most influential prose writers of all time.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Notes from the Underground
• Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150
• EAN: 9781843911265
• ISBN: 1843911264
• ID: 01252634
• Publisher: HESPERUS PRESS
• Weight: 202 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 129 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. September 2006

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