![]() Apropos of the Wet Snow serves to take the ideas set forth by the narrator in Underground and demonstrate them through actual events that the narrator goes through. This model explains why many historians have considered Notes from Underground to be one of the first truly existentialist texts. While previous texts have portrayed their respective protagonists as concerned with social conditions, Dostoevsky’s character is primarily focused on the meaning of his own existence and whether he has any sort of value or potential. This narrator, often referred to as the Underground Man, represents a revolutionary type of protagonist in Russian literature. Underground is an existentialist exploration of the consciousness and mentality of an unknown narrator. The novel is divided into two central parts, Underground and Apropos of the Wet Snow. ![]() Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground is not only a hallmark of 19th century Russian literature, but also a literary embodiment of several philosophical ideals that are still discussed today. ![]()
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