These thoughts are made more dramatic by the fact that he is addressing them to an imaginary audience which is opposed or hostile toward his views and toward him. As a monologue or a confession, the man from underground can use it to reveal directly his innermost thoughts. Notes from Underground is composed of two parts: a confession to an imaginary audience in Part 1, and then, in Part 2, an illustration of a certain episode in his life entitled "A Propos of the Wet Snow." First of all the confession itself is a dominant technique in Dostoevsky's writings. The student who has read other of Dostoevsky's works will immediately recognize many of Dostoevsky's ideas in this work. One reason that the work is so difficult is that Dostoevsky included so many ideas in such a short space, and thus the ideas are expressed with extreme intensity and are not elaborated upon. The ideas expressed in Notes from Underground become central to all of Dostoevsky's later novels, and therefore this work can be studied as an introduction to all of Dostoevsky's writings. Notes from Underground is perhaps Dostoevsky's most difficult work to read, but it also functions as an introduction to his greater novels later in his career.
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