Notes from Underground

by James Lamar Roberts, Fyodor Dostoevsky, CliffsNotes

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground , published in 1864, marks a turning point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment , The Idiot , and The Brothers Karamazov.

72 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 1970

About the author

See James L. Roberts.

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 5 out of 5]

If, for whatever reason, you don’t understand certain scenes or subject matter from Notes From Underground, this really breaks everything down to the basic concepts. Unfortunately, because Notes is a really short book, the Cliffs Notes only 30 or so pages shorter. Best parts were the commentaries about how ideas from Notes were later expanded upon in Dostoevsky’s future novels.