Notes From the Underground Archive

10 March

From Dostoevsky to Hollywood: The Macbeth Effect and the Cursed Film Notes from the New World

Written by Matthew Onufrak

Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s dramatic works were always destined to live forever. His novels unfold in cramped rooms, fevered confessions, and moral duels that resemble theatrical confrontations more than sprawling epics. When a Dostoevsky adaptation turns his writing into stage plays...

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29 March

Dostoyevsky and COVID-19

Written by Johnathen Rockwell

“At the end of 1879, the doctors examining Dostoyevsky discovered that he had a progressive lung disease. On the morning of February 28, Dostoevsky told his wife: ”I know I must die today!..” At 20:38 of the same day...

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17 December

The Great Corona Bake Off

Written by Nik Daniels

We all, if we have taken the necessary precautions, are like Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man in 2020. Life goes on, but now life includes a more apparent deconstruction of society and its flaws. *** As holidays careen toward us during...

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09 October

Wrestling as Literature

Written by Nik Daniels

When discussing Dostoevsky’s work, I often refer to Leonid Grossman’s quote in The Poetics of Dostoevsky where he says Dostoevsky wanted “to introduce the extraordinary into the very thick of commonplace, to fuse…the sublime with the grotesque, and push...

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25 June

Dostoevsky Reimagined as Comedy

Written by Nik Daniels

Every example of storytelling, at its root, stems from themes and ideas presented by classic literature. While every show and movie may not be modern adaptations from classic literature, the literature inspires them. Fyodor Dostoevsky is no stranger to...

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02 November

To Have and Have Not: Lonely Film Noir and “Underground” Themes Confound Bogart

Written by Tony Caro

The charismatic Humphrey Bogart had a penchant for playing misanthropic characters repeatedly. Perhaps the chain-smoking screen legend borrowed somewhat from his personal life when creating loner characters. Bogart seemed like someone who, like contemporary James Cagney, preferred to maintain...

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14 May

Dostoyevsky: Isolation Before And After The Technological Revolution

Written by Tony Caro

Patience Griswald crafted a thought-provoking article titled “How Would Dostoevsky Have Responded to the Smartphone?” In the article, Griswald noted that Brothers Karamazov painted a picture of a “lonely and isolated” (then contemporary) Russia. Parallels do exist between the...

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18 July

The Transgressive Spiteful Side of “Notes from the Underground”

Written by Tony Caro

Spite – noun: 1. a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone. Sympathy and empathy often draw a reader to the main character of a novel. Understandably, authors commonly cast their main characters in sympathetic lights. A main...

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14 June

When Zen Met Existentialism in Notes from Underground

Written by Tony Caro

Zen and existentialism appear to be bitterly opposite philosophies. At least that how perceptions appear to those who don’t delve deeply into either philosophies. Those perceptions do harm opinions about the philosophies. Zen theory suffers from the stereotypical depiction...

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21 November

More Russian Classics: 5 Reasons to read Netochka Nezvanova

Written by Felix Purat

Those familiar with Dostoyevsky’s Russian classics are just as familiar with his strangely iconic characters: Roddy Raskolnikov, the penniless murderer with a Napoleon complex; the Karamazov Brothers, enveloped in all their complexities despite somehow being related to each other;...

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