Dec 24, 2009

Notes From Underground | Critical Overview

Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground “evoked little critical comment,” said Richard Peace, writing in his study Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground. One of the reasons for this was that the story was “seen as an attack on left-wing radical thought,” Peace writes. Notes From Underground was a departure in tone and subject matter from Dostoevsky’s previous writing, and since his reading audience was basically liberal in thought and philosophy, most were concerned with this change. Some critics found the story immoral and antihumanitarian. Others recognized that...