sobornost'. This essay critically reconsiders ethical, aesthetic and cultural dimensions of the self-conscious interpolation of literary and religious discourses in Dostoevskij's Notes from Underground. Arguing with and against Bakhtinian readings, it re-examines the underground narrator's secularized, Romanticized sensibilities, cynical critique of humanism, sacrilegious modes of laughter, usurpation of authority, internalization of dialogue, literary stylization and parody, aesthetic and moral self-critique, and, finally, insistence on "a new word."" /> Unorthodox confession, orthodox conscience - Allen Sharon | sdvig press