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Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground is considered to be the first work of existentialism. It's a rebuke to the rational egoists of his day, specifically Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What is to be Done? What's the analysis? How do we interpret the book? And how did he predict the financial crash of 2008?
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Jackson, Robert Louis, Dostoevsky’s Underground Man in Russian Literature
Paris, Bernard. J., Dosteovsky’s Greatest Characters
Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground
Scanlan, James P. "The Case against Rational Egoism in Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"." Journal of the History of Ideas 60, no. 3 (1999): 549-67. doi:10.2307/3654018.
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