Notes From the Underground: Spring 2019 - Growing Pains
By Mariam Alvi, Emma Grace Bass, Jolie Baus, Helen Bradshaw, Maria Cascio, Ellie Casteel, Ananda Chatterjee, Isabella Choice, Madison Cordle, Simon Corpuz, Jainey Coates, Tayley Cotton, Mercy Crapps, Julia Croston, Holden Crumpler, Anna Kate Daunt, Ryan Daunt, Chandler Downie, Emily Dudley, Ezi Emenike, Lauren Fleischer, Laura Kathryn Foote, Lindsay Garrett, Lindsay Gray, Noah Greenstein, Chloe Harbin, Jack Hildebrandt, Abigail Hugill, Jackson Hugill, Isabel Hutchinson, Eli Jaffe, Riley Karpinski, Kate Krizner, Clara Catherine Lunny, Kenzie Mazziotta, Mary Allison McCue, Eli Mears, John Messer, Lexi O'Rourke, Cody Paddack, Sonu Patel, Eric Phipps, Sameer Ponnaluri, Devin Rankin, Collin Roberts, Madeleine Roberts, Emily Roden, Lilly Simons, Holly Sims, Lucy Smith, Bella Snider, Abbey Stejskal, De'Yanni Stephens, Spencer Sundberg, Michael Sweeney, Owen Tabah, Ethan Tetrault, Isabel Thompson, Grant Valveri, Judy Wang & Prophecy Wilson
- Release Date: 2019-05-09
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existentialist 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 Dostoyevsky's novella 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.
