/lit/ - Literature

Notes from Underground

It's not sci-fi, but the underground man is pretty much the original anti-hero.

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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

From Richard Pevear's introduction to Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (no spoilers):
>When the first part appeared in Epoch, Dostoevsky complained in a letter to his brother that the tenth chapter - "the most important one, where the essential thought is expressed" - had been drastically cur by the censors. "Where I mocked at everything and sometimes blasphemed for form's sake - that is let pass; but where from all this I deduced the need of faith and Christ - that is suppressed."
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>But if we look at Dostoevsky's outlines of his ideas for novels in his notebooks and letters and then at the novels themselves, we will realize at least that the scheme barely hints at the surprises of its development. However it was that Dostoevsky "deduced the need for faith and Christ" in this chapter, we may be sure that he did not add it on as an external "ideological" precept, but drew it from the materials of the work itself.

ITT: Discuss how Dostoevsky may have deduced " the need of faith and Christ," preferably in terms of Notes from Underground.

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