Stumbled over this pearl while doing some desktop research. Paul Brians, a literature professor at Washington State University, has online study notes for, among other topics, Dostoyeksy’s Notes From the Underground. On NFTU’s protagonist, the Underground Man: “Consider the UM as a complex portrait, lacking surface appeal, but filled with fascinating detail which reveals itself only upon close examination.”
Brians, Paul. Study Guide for Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground N.D.
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