Brooks paints a picture very loosely based on Notes From Underground but that is all his own, with very little actually to do with Dostoyevsky.
Brooks' Underground Man is a postmodern fanatic of either the alt left or the alt right.
In Notes, Dostoyevsky attacked Chernyshevsky's What Is To Be Done, a leftist utopian socialist work; as well as attacking nihilism and anarchism on the right; and also attacking idealized rational egoism, what one might call modern liberal secular humanism, the position more or less closest to that of Brooks.
Dostoyevsky believed in a Christian Orthodox world, where Czar and people were one, where Jews were detested, and where new or radical ideas were treated with suspicion.
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