![]() The second part of the work is a first-person narrative, in which the author of the previous gloomy monologue confesses some sordid actions he has committed in his life, demonstrating how even an "educated" and "well-mannered" person like himself can be deeply abject. ![]() The first part is a monologue of social criticism that exposes the optimistic ideals of positivism, which, according to the narrator, can never lead to the desired society of well-being based on science and reason, because the human being, or rather the individual, has a secret desire for suffering, dirt, and self-humiliation that cannot be contained by any theory of reason, nor by religious theories that propose sweet ideals of human brotherhood. It is divided into two the first is titled Underground, and the second is titled À Propos of the Wet Snow. ![]() ![]() Notes from Underground is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1864. ![]()
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