“Everything,” repeated Bazarov, with indescribable composure.ĭostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and its narrator are just about impossible really to understand without some knowledge of the intellectual climate of Russia in the 1860s, particularly the frisson of utopian socialism and atheistic utilitarianism then in vogue among the radical Russian intelligentsia, an ideology that Dostoevsky loathed with the sort of passion only Dostoevsky could loathe with. “What, not only art and poetry… but even… horrible to say…” “At the present time, negation is the most useful of all - and we deny - “ Edward Dahlberg, “Can These Bones Live?” By the touch of Circe’s wand, the divine troublemakers are translated into porcine embroidery.
The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship.
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