Notes from the Underground Characters

The Underground Man goes through a ton of arguments in Notes, each one building on the last. It can get confusing. We're going to give you the quick and dirty here in what we hope to be a delightfu...

Liza is a prostitute. If you're only going to know one thing about Liza, this should be it – especially because, in the Underground Man's eyes, this is her defining quality.Other than that, s...

The Underground Man hates Zverkov for so many reasons, it's almost hard to know where to be begin.For one, Zverkov is constantly talking about his sexual exploits, and as a feudal lord he exercises...

Apollon, like all the minor characters in the book, is filtered through our not-so-impartial narrator. He's either as much of a jerk as the Underground Man claims, or he's been unfairly made the vi...