Notes From The Underground
Dostoevsky's philosophical novella presenting a narrator's tortured musings on consciousness, free will, and the human condition. The underground man describes his internal contradictions, inability to act despite awareness, and paradoxical relationship with suffering.
21 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 I am a sick man.
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Chapter 2 I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not
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Chapter 3 With people who know how to revenge themselves and to stand up for themselves in
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Chapter 4 |Ha, ha, ha! You will be finding enjoyment in toothache next
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Chapter 5 Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of his
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Chapter 6 Oh, if I had done nothing simply from laziness! Heavens
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Chapter 7 But these are all golden dreams.
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Chapter 8 |Ha! ha! ha! But you know there is no such thing as choice in reality
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Chapter 9 Gentlemen, I am joking, and I know myself that my jokes are not brilliant
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Chapter 10 You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed -- a palace
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Chapter 11 The long and the short of it is, gentlemen
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Chapter 12 When from dark error's subjugation
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Chapter 13 AT THAT TIME I was only twenty-four.
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Chapter 14 I found two of my old schoolfellows with him.
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Chapter 15 I had been certain the day before that I should be the first to arrive.
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Chapter 16 |So this is it, this is it at last -- contact with real life
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Chapter 17 .
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Chapter 18 |Oh, hush, Liza! How can you talk about being like a book
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Chapter 19 It was some time, however, before I consented to recognise that truth.
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Chapter 20 |Into my house come bold and free,
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Chapter 21 A quarter of an hour later I was rushing up and down the room in