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 th
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 For 10 points, name this Dostoevski novel, which begins with the forty-year-old protagonist already withdrawn from society, spewing hatred, bitter philosophy, and ridicule at the imaginary reader of his journals.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}