Comparing Dostoevsky and Gorky
When Dostoevsky wrote Notes from Underground , he shocked the society in which he lived. Criticized until today, Dostoevsky introduced the anti-hero, a lower-class man full of contradictions. ... Gorky, another important Russian writer, believed that Dostoevsky created the Underground Man to express the struggle and trauma society had passed on to him. Gorky then wrote the Lower Depths in an attempt to respond to Notes from Underground. There are some large differences between Gorky and Dostoevsky’s work. ... Gorky’s play, in contrast, is a social work, dealing with society and different kinds of people interacting with each other.