Notes From Underground & Other Stories

In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife’s suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal.

Other works include:

• (1846) Mr. Prokharchin
• (1847) The Landlady
• (1847) Novel in Nine Letters
• (1848) Another Man's Wife and a Husband under the Bed
• (1848) A Weak Heart
• (1848) Polzunkov
• (1848) An Honest Thief
• (1848) A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
• (1848) White Nights
• (1849) A Little Hero
• (1859) Uncle’s Dream
• (1862) A Nasty Story
• (1864) Notes from Underground
• (1865) The Crocodile
• (1873) Bobok
• (1876) The Heavenly Christmas Tree
• (1876) A Gentle Creature
• (1876) The Peasant Marey
• (1877) The Dream of a Ridiculous Man