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{{quote|"...what is man without desire, without will, and without wishes if not a stop in an organ pipe?"}}
An 1863 novel by [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] about an unnamed social outcast living in St. Petersburg. Depressed by the city and his own inadequacy, this mysterious Underground Man begins to write a rambling, philosophical journal -- the [[Notes From Underground]].
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Deals with themes of existentialism (though it predates the actual movement), free will, and the modern disconnect from others.
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* [[Author Tract]] Noticeably averted -- the author's opinions fell just about opposite of the Underground Man's. Dostoevsky was actually using the character as an example of what he saw as the degradation of the human condition.
* [[Big Ham]]: The thing with a lot of Dostoevsky's characters is that they work on extremes. They not always be in your face bombastic and they may not be loud, but they take whatever trait they have to (or past)its logical extreme to the point of ridiculous, [[Rule of Symbolism|but it serves a purpose]].
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