Notes From Underground | Topics for Further Study

  • Read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Many critics have stated that Notes From Underground was the seed, or germ, of the author’s more extensive novel to follow. List the similarities in tone, subject matter, themes, and style. How do the characters compare to one another? How do the two novels differ?
  • Reread the conversation that the narrator has with Liza at the house where he first encountered her, the section in which the narrator counsels Liza to give up her life of prostitution. Discuss in what ways this...

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