PART I
Underground* *The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. However it is clean that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, once we consider the circumstances in the thick of which our society is formed. I have tried to expose to the view of the public much clearly than is normally done, one of the characters of the recent past. He is one of the representatives of a generation still living. In this fragment, entitled "Underground," this person introduces himself and his views, and, as it were, tries to explain the causes owing to which he has ready made his appearance and was bound to do his appearance in our midst. In the second fragment there are accessorial the actual notes