Editing Notes from Underground (section)

== Writing style ==
Although the novella is written in [[first-person narrative]], the "I" is never really discovered. The [[syntax]] can at times seem "multi-layered"; the [[Subject (grammar)|subject]] and the [[verb]] are often at the very beginning of the sentence before the [[Object (grammar)|object]] goes into the depths of the narrator's thoughts. The narrator repeats many of his concepts.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Problems in Dostoevsky's Poetics|last=Bakhtin|first=Mikhail M.|publisher=Ardis|year=1973|location=Ann Arbor, MI|pages=150–159}}</ref>

In chapter 11, the narrator refers to his inferiority to everyone around him and describes listening to people as like "listening through a crack under the floor." The word "underground" actually comes from a bad translation into English. A better translation would be a [[crawl space (basement)|crawl space]]: a space under the floor that is not big enough for a human, but where rodents and bugs live. According to [[Folklore of Russia|Russian folklore]], it is also a place where evil spirits live.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}