How you explore Notes from the Underground on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 8 characters, 5 places, 7 objects and 4 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 28 passages of Notes from the Underground sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Fyodor Dostoyevsky instead.
The Notes from the Underground feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of Notes from the Underground
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- The Underground Man Introduces Himself
- Against the Crystal Palace
- Wet Snow and the Humiliations
- Liza and the Banknote
The author's pen in Notes from the Underground
The passages themselves, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Spite Against Himselfch. 1
- A Spiteful Officialch. 1
- Settled in Miserych. 1
- Looked Upon With Loathingch. 1
- Moved Without Noticech. 1
- Shoulder to Shoulderch. 1
- Too Conscious To Be An Insectch. 2
- Enjoyment In Degradationch. 2
- Everlasting Spitech. 3
- The Stone Wallch. 3
- A Sort of Loathingch. 3
- Hatred and Envy of Zverkovch. 3
- Enjoyment In Toothachech. 4
- Count Me Inch. 4
- Crushed And Humiliatedch. 4
- Pacing to Be Noticedch. 4
- Consciousness and Inertiach. 5
- Intelligence and Inertiach. 5
- Why Should I Diech. 5
- Selling Body and Soulch. 6
The characters of Notes from the Underground
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- The Underground Manmajor
- Lizamajor
- Zverkovsupporting
- Apollonsupporting
- Simonovsupporting
- The Officersupporting
- Ferfitchkinminor
- Trudolyubovminor
The locations in Notes from the Underground
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- The Underground Man's Apartmentapartment
- Petersburg Streetscity streets
- Nevsky Prospectstreet
- Hôtel de Parisrestaurant
- Liza's Lodgingbrothel
The core concepts in Notes from the Underground
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Consciousness as Prison
- Freedom Against Rational Certainty
- Humiliation and Wounded Pride
- The Fear of Human Connection
- Performing the Self
- The Underground
The objects of note in Notes from the Underground
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- The Notes
- The Officer's Sword
- The Banknote Given to Liza
- Liza's Address
- Apollon's Wages
- The Sledge
- The Crystal Palace
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