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Notes from the Underground and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett; David Rampton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Notes from the Underground and Other Stories about?

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness." With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevskys short fiction. 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. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok , one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit , the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wifes suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal.

Who reads Notes from the Underground and Other Stories?

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett; David Rampton

Publisher

Wordsworth Editions, Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781840225778

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (275 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14