![]() ![]() The underground man says that he is not to blame for being a bad person, but that his “overly acute consciousness” prevents him from taking action. He tells his readers that he is “neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect,” and says that no one of intelligence in the 19th century can be a man of action or character. He has been living underground for twenty years, but used to work in the civil service, where he was rude to anyone who came to his desk. He says that he doesn’t know what he is sick with, but he refuses to be treated by doctors out of spite. The underground man begins by telling the reader that he is a sick, spiteful, unattractive man. A note from the author introduces a fictional character known as the underground man, who the author says is “representative of the current generation,” and whose rambling notes will form the novella that is to follow. ![]()
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