Notes from Underground

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."So begins Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky''s psychological and philosophical tour de force. In this haunting novella, an unnamed narrator—an embittered former civil servant—retreats from society into isolation and unleashes a brutal monologue on free will, suffering, and the contradictions of human nature.Written as a direct counter to the utopian ration...