Notes from the Underground: Spring 2018
By Laura Adams, Khadeja Ahmed, Emma Bell, Mercy Bickell, Vivian Bolen, Helen Bradshaw, Alayna Cicchetti, Jainey Coates, Simon Corpuz, Holden Crumpler, Jerry Cui, Will Daughton, Anna Kate Daunt, Katherine Dowdy, Chandler Downie, Ezi Emenike, Lauren Fleischer, Linlee Franklin, Tommy Gray, Sarah Halbert, Jack Hildebrandt, Logan Homison, Jackson Hugill, Camille LaRocca, Allison Laudadio, Anna Lewis, Beecher Lewis, Caroline Rose Lunny, Kayla Martin, Nikki Mauldin, Atticus Mazerac, Mary Allison McCue, Kenzie Mullins, Dimitri Nakis, Harrison Obrecht, Emily Roden, Lexi O'Rourke, Cody Paddack, Daniella Paredes, Sonu Patel, Madison Perkins, Eric Phipps, Andrew Rentz, Madeleine Roberts, Skila Rogers, Mary Rust, Jennifer Ryn, Mark Scott, Marie Shapley, Avery Shaver, Raegan Sherman, Lilly Simons, Holly Sims, Jacob Smith, Lucy Smith, Bella Snider, Spencer Sundberg, Ethan Tetreault, Isabel Thompson, Seth Van Syckle, Jane Vickers, Judy Wang, Abby Watson & Lee Alisha Williams
- Release Date: 2019-02-13
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing
On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature. The unnamed narrator is frequently named an anti-hero and is described by the note on the back of the Dover edition as a "profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes." The novella opens with the words "I am a sick man." This is not to say that Dostoyesky's novellas are about art and darkness but rather that this novella and art confront darkness. The powers that be don't like this, but art endures and fights on.
