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Notes From Underground, it is a novella and It also consider as a philosophy which written by Fyodor Dostoevsky at 1864 and it translated to English at 1918. The novella divided into two parts, each part contains ten chapters. It is about a forty years old man, and I will refer to him as the underground man. In the first part, he took us into his stream of consciousness and how he was moving and jumping from an idea to another. In the second part he
When I read the story at the first time, I do not like it. I confuse by the way he is talking with, he have lots of conflicting ideas and emotions to the point that you cannot judge his talking, and also I can not trust his words because he is changing it quickly to the point

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