Notes from Underground

Notes from Underground is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and originally published in 1864.

Notes from Underground follows an unnamed narrator, bitter about the experiences of his life and ranting about them. The man explains three stories in particular. The first is a bar fight, the narrator becomes obsessed with the police officer who broke it up. The second story details a dinner party, where the man ends up fighting with associates after they change the time of the meeting causing him to wait for an extra hour. The third segment involves the narrator's strange relationship with a prostitute he meets.

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