One night the narrator sees a man thrown out of a window of a pool hall, and tries unsuccessfully to get himself thrown out too.
One night the narrator sees a man thrown out of a window of a pool hall, and tries unsuccessfully to get himself thrown out too. After several months of following around the officer who refused to throw him, he writes a novel about the man, but the novel is rejected. Feeling the need for companionship, he decides to visit his superior Anton, but just sits with him in silence. Later the narrator goes to a dinner party at the house of Zverkov, but antagonizes people. The narrator finally convinces a prostitute Liza to give up her profession, only to have her rebuff him later. A nihilistic government worker with a bad liver is the narrator of, for 10 points, what novel by Feodor Dostoyevsky?
One night the narrator sees a man thrown out of a window of a pool hall, and tries unsuccessfully to get himself thrown out too.
{Notes from the Underground}