A character in this book notes that, though man has moved beyond "barbaric times" as when Cleopatra stuck gold pins in slave-girls' breasts, he still has yet to learn to act in accordance with science. This book's opening section says man is meant to be more than an "organ stop" or piano key, warning against the dangers of a utopian "crystal palace" in reaction to the novel What is to be Done? A man in this book plots for years to get revenge by wearing a nice coat and bumping into an officer on the street, and takes away the salary of a disobedient servant named (*) Apollon. After a character in this book admits to a woman that he lied to her in a brothel, she leaves his flat, realizing he is incapable of love. That protagonist visits his only friend Simonov and goes to a farewell dinner for Zverkov in its second part, titled "Apropos of the Wet Snow." For 10 points, the narrator has a relationship with the pro
A character in this book notes that, though man has moved beyond "barbaric times" as when Cleopatra stuck gold pins in slave-girls' breasts, he still has yet to learn to act in accordance with science. This book's opening section says man is meant to be more than an "organ stop" or piano key, warning against the dangers of a utopian "crystal palace" in reaction to the novel What is to be Done? A man in this book plots for years to get revenge by wearing a nice coat and bumping into an officer on the street, and takes away the salary of a disobedient servant named (*) Apollon. After a character in this book admits to a woman that he lied to her in a brothel, she leaves his flat, realizing he is incapable of love. That protagonist visits his only friend Simonov and goes to a farewell dinner for Zverkov in its second part, titled "Apropos of the Wet Snow." For 10 points, the narrator has a relationship with the prostitute Liza in what Dostoevsky novel about a recluse?
A character in this book notes that, though man has moved beyond "barbaric times" as when Cleopatra stuck gold pins in slave-girls' breasts, he still has yet to learn to act in accordance with science.
Notes from Underground [or Zapiski iz podpol'ya]