Underground Man, n.Definitions

The Underground Man (n.) astonishes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠critics only because they suppress his mediators, the officer and Zverkov, so mechanism looks like spontaneity.

The Underground Man (n.) lives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠under a series of mediators' dictatorships, as savage as they are brief, where Don Quixote's was a feudal monarchy more symbolic than real.

The Underground Man (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like us, not for the critics' reasons, but because the will to autonomy gives rise to a slavery we do not wish to see.