On the form and implication of Notes from Underground
The novella Notes from Underground is a milestone work in Dostoevsky's creative career.The novel portrays the spiritual world of the struggle between good and evil,rationality and irrationality among the civilian intellectuals in Russia in the 19th century,depicting their pain and struggle between ideals and reality.The transformed Mennippean style,polyphonic structure composed of multi-voice dialogues,and defamiliarized language vividly present the spiritual dilemma of underground people to readers,reflecting the integration and unity of structural forms and ideological contents.
Notes from Undergroundform aestheticsMennippean stylepolyphonic structure