Notes from the Underground

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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUNDSUMMARY

by: Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The anonymous narrator of Notes from Underground is a bitter, misanthropic man living alone in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 1860s.
He is a veteran of the Russian civil service who has recently been able to retire because he has inherited some money.
The novel consists of the “notes” that the man writes, a confused and often contradictory set of memoirs or confessions describing and explaining his alienation from modern society