For 10 points, name this Dostoevski novel, which begins with the forty-year-old protagonist already withdrawn from society, spewing hatred, bitter philosophy, and ridicule at the imaginary reader of his journals.
On one level, this novel was written to counter Chernyshevskys _Chto elat?_, ridiculing Chernyshevskys assumptions through irrational behavior and reasoning. The authors first successful longer work, the main character is a keenly conscious misogynist who masks excessive pride with pathological submissiveness. For 10 points, name this Dostoevski novel, which begins with the forty-year-old protagonist already withdrawn from society, spewing hatred, bitter philosophy, and ridicule at the imaginary reader of his journals.
On one level, this novel was written to counter Chernyshevskys _Chto elat?
{Notes From the Underground}