A Defense Of Individualism Based On Foydor Dostoevskys Novel:notes F E

Fyodor Dostoevskys novel, NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, has held many labels, such as being a case history of nuerosis or a specimen of modern tragedy. The most popular label it has obtained however, is being the authors defense of individualism.The novel is writen as a performance, part triad, part memoir, by a anonymous personage who claims to be writing for hiomself but consistently maipulates the reader--of whom he is morbidly aware-- to the point where there seems to be no judgement the reader can work which has not already been made by the writer himself.The underground man is represenative as a product of individaul pathology or a biographical accident. He is " integrity of the characters of our recent past," part of a generation that is living out its days among us. Internal eveidence makes it clear that his generation is of the 1840s. He shows the fate of the isolated petty work and Dostoevkian dreamer twenty years after, surveying his wasted bread and butter in t he new spiritual climate of the 1860s and at the same time finding plea for his own grotesque being in the simplistic views of the human nature now current.IN the first part of the novel, the underground man describes himself and his views, and attempts, as it were, to wrap up the reasons why he appeared and is bound in our midst. The mention of his self and his views raise thequestion of how the two are related. Are we to understand his views as the product of his wasted life or independently? There...