id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-225 Notes from Underground - Wikipedia .html text/html 3247 314 71 The first part of the story is told in monologue form through the Underground Man's diary, and attacks contemporary Russian philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?.[2] The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.[3] The first part also gives a harsh criticism of determinism, as well as of intellectual attempts at dictating human action and behavior by logic, which the Underground Man discusses in terms of the simple math problem: two times two makes four (cf. Notes from Underground (1995), a film adaptation of Dostoevsky's novella, directed by Gary Walkow, with Henry Czerny and Sheryl Lee in the leading roles.[12] "The Case against Rational Egoism in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground". The Underground Man as Big Brother: Dostoevsky's and Orwell's Anti-Utopia. ^ Notes from Underground on IMDb. External links[edit] Full text of Notes from Underground in the original Russian ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-225.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-225.txt