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Essay / Review of Dostoyevsky's “Notes from the Underground” - 1600
“Notes from the Metro” was published in 1864 as a presentation of its first issue of 1860 “The Times”. “Notes from Underground” was written by the author at a time when he was facing many challenges in his life. Dostoyevsky experienced a failure in the publication of his first newspaper "Time", his financial situation became increasingly weak and embarrassing. Additionally, his wife was dying and his conservatism eroded, leading to a decline in his popularity among Russian liberal readers and as a result he became the target of attacks by the radical press and liberal (Fanger 3). This research therefore seeks to discover how the author presents the aspect of "underground man" and how he approached Charles Darwin's thoughts on man in "The Origin of Species". The tone of “Notes from Underground” is sharp, strange and bitter. The bitterness of the book finds its origin in the multiple personal misfortunes that the author suffered during the writing of his novel. Through these personal tragedies, it can be argued that the author presented the position of the “underground man” through his own experiences. Additionally, research supports the second belief that the novel's presentation of the "underground man" is grounded in the social context addressed by the novel (Fanger 3). Through this, it was discovered that Dostoyevsky presented human suffering within the framework of an emerging worldview led by European materialism, liberalism, and utopianism. As he began to write his novel, Dostoyevsky had been guided by the romantic error which considered social life utopian and the social vision of a regular life satisfying and perfect for man. The failure of society to achieve these achievements was the result of distant liberalism and materialism which reduced the power of reasoning and...... middle of paper ......, its physical inertia thwarts its aggressive desires and he compulsively talks about himself but has no firm discussion (Frank 50). Furthermore, the underground man is full of contempt for the readers but he is desperate for the reader to understand, he reads a lot but writes superficially, he describes social thinkers as superficial and he desires to collide with reality but does not I don't have the capacity to do it. The underground man is therefore completely emotional, talkative without real form. Works Cited Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from Underground and the Grand Inquisitor, trans. RE Matlaw. New York: Dutton, 1960. Fanger, Donald. Introduction: Notes from the Basement. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Trans. Mirra Ginsburg. NY: Bantam, 1992. Frank, Joseph. “Nihilism and notes from the underground. » In Modern Critical Views: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Ed. Harold Bloom. NY: Chelsea House, 1988: 35-58