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Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky's Groundbreaking Portrait of Rebellion Isolation and Existential Despair - cover

Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky's Groundbreaking Portrait of Rebellion Isolation and Existential Despair

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Zenith Golden Quill

Publisher: Zenith Golden Quill

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Summary

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."

So begins Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky's psychological and philosophical tour de force. In this haunting novella, an unnamed narrator—an embittered former civil servant—retreats from society into isolation and unleashes a brutal monologue on free will, suffering, and the contradictions of human nature.

Written as a direct counter to the utopian rationalism of his time, this prophetic work foreshadows the rise of existentialism and remains one of the most intellectually and emotionally provocative texts in modern literature.

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💬 What Readers Say:
"A raw, disturbing confession of a man at war with himself."
"Dostoevsky pulls no punches in this relentless descent into the soul."
"Short, searing, and impossible to forget."

📥 Download Notes from Underground today and dive into the mind of one of literature's most unforgettable antiheroes.
Available since: 05/09/2025.
Print length: 133 pages.

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