About This Novel
In "Notes from the Basement", the writer describes a character who he believed was not only possible but also inevitable in the society at that time. The protagonist, the basement man, is narrated in the first person. The basement man is a retired civil servant who is about 40 years old. His heart is full of pathological inferiority, but he often analyzes himself. The book mainly consists of two parts: The first part is a long monologue by the man in the basement, which discusses philosophical issues such as free will, human irrationality, and historical irrationality. The novel confronts Chernyshevsky's novel "What to Do?" With its pessimism. >>'S historical optimism, which believes that thoughts and feelings are often in a state of contradiction.
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