Notes from the Underground: Fall 2019
By Lauren Fleischer, Sonu Patel, Caroline Delegal, Lilly Simons, Caroline Higdon, Hudson Shelfer, Clara Catherine Lunny, Anna Grant, Colin Acuff, Emily Dudley, Madelyn Stout, Ethan Tetreault, Madison Cordle, Leo Rutledge, Kaileigh Schmidt, Kat Large, Kameryn Davis, Braden Foster, Mary Allison McCue, Emma Messer, Ellie Casteel, Anna Watson, Rachel Abbott, Jillian Beck, John Messer, Eli Mears, Madeline Lillie, Mariam Alvi, Chloe Harbin, Spencer Gibbs, Simon Corpuz, Ramsey Grant, Owen Tabah, Kate Krizner, Lauren Price, Jordan Jones & Heaven Ward
- Release Date: 2019-12-10
- 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.
