Notes from Underground is one of the most profound and most
unsettling works of modern literature, prefiguring Dostoevskys
later masterpieces such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The
Brothers Karamazov. The underground man has become one of the
fixtures of the contemporary worldview. No discussion of the
predicament of modern man would be complete without some allusion
to this archetypal figure both prophetic and loathsome that towers
over modern culture. / The Notes from Underground are, as
translator Boris Jakim says, A foul passageway leading into the
profoundest secrets of the human heart, an abyss where the most
loathsome thoughts are revealed. The Notes are a limbo without hope
even of hell, a Book of Job without a happy ending, a waiting for
nothing and no one (not even Godot). Nonetheless, entering into
this underground that Dostoesky claims is in us all is necessary in
order to understand not only this lowest of lows, but also the
heights that lift man out of the depths into sanctity and
exaltation. It is largely due to this masterful contrast that Notes
from Underground is considered by many critics to be not only a
pinnacle of existentialist literature, but also one of the greatest
works of modern literature altogether.
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