In winter 1886-87 Nietzsche discovered Dostoievski�s work thanks to a strange French book entitled L�esprit souterrain. The philosopher�s reading of the �seconde partie� of this volume is documented in this essay and his main discoveries are set out in it as well, that is: the �underground�s� symbol and the features of an �underground existence�: loneliness, self-knowledge, sharp and evil conscience, passivity, pleasure on desperation (the psychology of masochism), the ressentiment, anti-utopian pessimism and a conception of friendship and love as a fight between the strong and the weak ones and also as will to control and to tyrannize others. A decisive question remains open: what does the �real alive life� mean?
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