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‘It is best to do nothing! e best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’ Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insigni cance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘anthill’ of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‘underground’. e seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in e Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him – his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist.
