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Notes from the Underground

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The hero of "Notes from Underground" is a lonely and embittered retired official who recently inherited a fortune. He is now forty years old and lives "in a corner"—a "crappy, wretched" room on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. In his reflections, he rejects rationalism and the utopian ideas of modernity, defending free will and the right to irrational actions, even if they cause suffering.

The story is considered a precursor to existentialism and has influenced subsequent literature and philosophy.

The book also includes the journalistic essay "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions"—a travelogue by Dostoevsky about his 1862 trip to Europe. In it, the writer criticizes Western values, bourgeoisism, the cult of money, and the lack of spirituality, contrasting them with the ideal of the Russian soul.
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