While in prison in Siberia, Dostoevsky learned that the Russian undereducated workers and the peasants would associate progressive thinkers and the upper class that used to oppress them and restrict their freedom. The second part of the novella is entitled "À propos of the Wet Snow", and describes some events that sometimes destroy or renew the underground man, who has the role of the first person, anti-hero, an indecisive victim of his society and untrustworthy narrator.ĭostoevsky analyses the effects that modern life has on the personality of this man at the margin of the society that Dostoevsky continued to explore in his subsequent works. The first part, "Underground", is a monologue, the diary of the underground man, an attack against the new Western philosophy, mainly the revolutionary novel What Is to Be Done? Written by the "rational egoist" Nikolay Chernyshevsky in 1863.
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