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""I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man,"" the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a turning point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas show more he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, and The B show lessTags
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