Russian-Style Confessions from the Underground

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.3-17.110

Atashbarab Hamidreza,

Doctor of Philology, Faculty member of

University of Guilan (Islamic Republic of Iran)

e-mail: Hatashbarb.ac@gmail.com

Confessional literature reflects the feelings, experiments and personal and psychological state of its creator. The critics largely find the confessions in some of Dostoevsky’s novels, uttered by his ideological heroes, the best ever created confessions in literature, such as those of Stavrogin in “The Possessed” and Ivan Karamazov in “Karamazov brothers”. In “Notes from the underground”, the underground man renders his thoughts and viewpoints in form of a soliloquy. Rousseau’s “The Confessions” proves to be an appropriate, invaluable paradigm for Dostoevsky and his unreliable narrator, the underground man, who exploits the Rousseauisque model and creates his own anti-Rousseauisque, russian-style confessions.

Keywords: сonfession, сonfessional literature, “Notes from the underground”, underground man, Dostoevsky, Rousseau.

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