Letters from the Underworld (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Fyodor Dostoevski
- First Published: 1864
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Nineteenth century, Prostitution or prostitutes, Antiheroes, Letter writing, Life, philosophy of, Students or student life, Russia or Russian people, Parties
- Locales: St. Petersburg, Russia
The Work
Fyodor Dostoevski’s Letters from the Underworld has two sections, which at first reading are only obliquely related. Part 1 begins: “I am a sick man. . . . I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man,” with the narrator, the underground man, then proceeding to demonstrate this negative self appraisal to a hostile, imaginary audience, whom he periodically addresses as “gentlemen.” Part 1 relates the underground man’s cynical views of human nature, especially the human nature of “modern man.” In a sometimes rambling, often cogent monologue, the...
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Fyodor Dostoevski (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Fyodor Dostoevski (Mystery and Detective Fiction)Fyodor Dostoevski (Censorship)Fyodor Dostoevski (Short Fiction)Fyodor Dostoevski (Dictionary of World Biography)Fyodor Dostoevski (Ethics)Fyodor Dostoevski (Long Fiction)Fyodor Dostoevski (Identities and Issues)
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