Notes from Underground

In Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky draws readers into the fierce inner monologue of a solitary, resentful, and painfully lucid man who has withdrawn from society and lives in a dark basement room in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg. From this "e;underground,"e; he delivers a scorching attack on social conventions, rationalist logic, established morality, and the comforting myth of progr...