Notes from Underground
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A great book. First published AD 1864, written in Russian
Notes from Underground is a novella by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession". The work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title "A Confession".
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Crime and PunishmentGreat book
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, AD 1866
The Underground Man rails against reason and utility; Crime and Punishment puts the argument to the test. Raskolnikov acts on a theory, that an extraordinary man may kill for the general good, and the novel follows what it does to him.
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“In the novel, Dostoevsky pinpointed the dangers of both utilitarianism and rationalism, the main ideas of which inspired the radicals, continuing a fierce criticism he had already started with his Notes from Underground.”
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