A estética do niilismo: a construção do personagem-narrador em Memórias Do Subsolo

The present article aims to investigate the relationship between nihilism and the construction of the narrator-character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. To this end, it analyzes the nihilistic aesthetics within the work, highlighting how the author, by positioning himself as a subject of his own creation, employs nihilism both as an aesthetic device and as a target of criticism, while simultaneously striving to transcend it. In this context, the Russian author understands nihilism not only as a representation of the human condition, as described by Nietzsche, or as a historical phenomenon that affected 19th-century Russia, but also as a creative force and political power that shapes his literary production.