No. 23 · The Well-Read 30Notes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky1864
Fiction · 1864
Notes from Underground
A bitter, hyper-aware narrator argues with society, reason, himself, and the reader before recounting the humiliations that shaped him.
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- free will
- resentment
- alienation
- self-sabotage
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