TY - BOOK AU - Dostoyevsky,Fyodor AU - Garnett,Constance TI - Notes from the Underground AV - PG PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Political fiction KW - Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction KW - Russia -- Officials and employees -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_from_Underground; Release date is 1996-07-01; Judith Boss. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a novella published in 1864. This confession-style narrative follows a bitter, isolated former civil servant in St. Petersburg known as the Underground Man. Through philosophical monologues and personal anecdotes, he attacks determinism and utopian ideals, arguing that humans need suffering and irrationality to maintain freedom. He obsesses over past humiliations and social encounters, embracing spite and inaction while despising the rational self-interest that he believes has trapped him in unhappiness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600 ER -