Flashbacks in this work's second part, entitled "Apropos of the Wet Snow", include the main character obsessing over whether to yield the right of way to a soldier, following former schoolmates to a dinner where he is not wanted, and fantasizing about rescuing a prostitute.
Flashbacks in this work's second part, entitled "Apropos of the Wet Snow", include the main character obsessing over whether to yield the right of way to a soldier, following former schoolmates to a dinner where he is not wanted, and fantasizing about rescuing a prostitute. That prostitute, Liza, rejects the nameless protagonist's offer of money after she realizes his speeches clash with his reality. Beginning "I am a sick man…I am a spiteful man", FTP, identify this 1864 short work about a retired civil servant in St. Petersburg, written by Dostoevsky.
Flashbacks in this work's second part, entitled "Apropos of the Wet Snow", include the main character obsessing over whether to yield the right of way to a soldier, following former schoolmates to a dinner where he is not wanted, and fantasizing about rescuing a prostitute.
{Notes from} the {Underground} or {Letters from} the {Underworld} or {Memoirs from a Dark Cellar} (as this is Russian, we will employ the Kaplan Rule and accept finitely many “a” and “the”)