Notes From Underground
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In his book Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism, Donald Fanger (1965) maintains that DostoevskyÆs works reveal a writer of ôromantic realismö (9). In Literary Cavalcade, one literary critic maintains that Notes From Underground is about ôa man who canÆt find goodness in the world and live undergroundö (Outsiders 2001, 4). In Notes From Underground, a closer reading demonstrates that the narrator is not a romantic realist but rather one imbued with romantic idealism. As to the second quote above, the narrator cannot find goodness in the world not because it doesnÆt exist, but because he cannot forego his romantic illusions and defense mechanisms in order to make and sustain contact of a deep nature with other human beings.Notes From Underground is an existential work in that the narrator attempts to prove to us in the first half of the book that ration is just a social construction that does not exist. Instead he argues that irrationality is manÆs true nature. However, in the second portion of the book, the narrator recounts stories of his youth, oneÆs that show us the fault of his inability to connect with other human beings lies in himself and not in others or society. Unable to find solace in a world whose rationality he finds limiting, the underground man takes refuge in his own believed superiority to others. He calls himself a ôsick man, a spiteful manà[and] a most unpleasant manö (Dostoevsky 1995, 1105). However, he is such
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