He calls on an old schoolmate named Simonov, who is holding a farewell dinner for another of their old schoolmates, Zverkov, that he attends.
The narrator of this work uses an analogy of hitting a wall to differentiate between the ways intellectual men and direct men enact revenge. During an episode of fever, the narrator visits his superior Anton and sits in silence with him and his family for hours. After a police officer refuses to throw the narrator out of the window of a billiards parlor, he writes a satirical novel about the officer that is rejected because its style is outdated. He calls on an old schoolmate named Simonov, who is holding a farewell dinner for another of their old schoolmates, Zverkov, that he attends. He follows Zverkov to a brothel where he meets the prostitute Liza, who abandons him after he falls in love with her. FTP name this short existential novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The narrator of this work uses an analogy of hitting a wall to differentiate between the ways intellectual men and direct men enact revenge.
Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld or Zapiski iz podpolya