Notes From Underground: The Autonomic Remonstrance of a Persona
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Summary Dostoevsky’s classic, Notes From Underground maintains the transient ability to pass through the realm of classic literature and into the incendiary realm of the literary fiends who feed on accumulated grotesqueries. This transmutability is painfully not shared with the fabricated persona of the “Underground Man” one of the most pathetic yet endearing characters ever to exist in prose. As his title suggests, the “Underground Man” shuns humanity yet simultaneously and with a forceful dynamic believes that humanity is superior to him. The narrative voice is constantly in conflict with itself with equally robust ideologies cannibalizing themselves and pushing themselves forward so as to create an infinite stasis that he cannot transcend. The atomic theme of alienation and of the outcasts that society engenders is one constructed seamlessly well by Dostoevsky and the romanticism of the persona objectively watching itself is one admitted in earnest. The persona’s shunning of humanity is similar to the irony of a little boy lashing out at an animal and laughing--the irony being that the little boy hurts as well. No other literary character is so absolutely self-effacing and filled utterly with inconsistent bile.
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- Dostoevsky's classic, Notes From Underground maintains the transient ability to pass through the realm of classic literature and into the incendiary realm of the literary fiends who feed on accumulated grotesqueries.
- The first part of the memoir simply introduces in flagrant and sometimes absurd expository description the Underground Man's stilted ideologies.
- Rebelling against society itself and its tendency to ignore the ineffable is another way of transcending this restrictive practicality.
- The one stimulus that The Underground man can seem to endure is reading and is clear that at this point he is utterly infused with literary archetypal ideals and principles.
- His next attempt at socializing occurs when he visits an old schoolmate, Simonov, the one former schoolmate that he maintains a relationship with.
- He follows them to the brothel to enact his heroic romantic ploy but when he arrives the men have gone off with women.
- Notes from Underground is Dostoevsky's most consummate realization of his existential theory. Ultimately the great overarching conflict of the Underground Man is that he cannot transcend intellectualization to exist purely.
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