Notes From Underground | Essays and Criticism

  • Antihero: The Self-Hating Existentialist in Notes From Underground

    Scott Malia received his PhD in drama from Tufts University, and he currently works in theater and education. In the following essay, Dr. Malia discusses the philosophy of existentialism and its relation to the titular narrator/character of Notes From Underground.

  • Freedom and Reason in Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

    Deborah Moreland received her doctorate in literary studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, having written her dissertation on the connection between high culture and low culture in early twentieth-century British literature. She now teaches and chairs the English department at a private school in Dallas. In the following essay on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground, she considers the novella’s relationship to Enlightenment, Romantic, and contemporary epistemologies.