For 10 points, name this novella narrated by an unnamed, misanthropic character, a work by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
This work claims that only people of limited intellect can be men of action, since only they will have the lack of doubt needed to act. The protagonist of this work smacks a carriage driver in the neck while imagining dramatically slapping a man in the face, but then realizes that he stole this idea from a play. That event in this work occurs after the protagonist gets himself invited to a farewell (*) dinner he can't afford to pay for, honoring a former classmate that he hates, named Zverkov. The narrator of this work refuses to see a doctor to treat his liver pain, out of spite. At the end of this work, the narrator humiliates a prostitute named Liza. For 10 points, name this novella narrated by an unnamed, misanthropic character, a work by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
This work claims that only people of limited intellect can be men of action, since only they will have the lack of doubt needed to act.
Notes from the Underground [or Letters from the Underworld; or Zapiski iz podpol'ya]