In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal. Dostoevskys most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the.

In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife’s suicide. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. I dont know the specific passage but its likely in one of Pauls epistles. It is now Christs blood, your conscience so to speak. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. The voice of your brothers blood is crying out to me' In the Christian (i.e., New Testament) tradition, the voice of the blood is new and improved. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. This part of the story displays Dostoevskys love for exploring human psychology.

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