Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction."-from the Introduction by Donald Fanger

"I am a sick man . . .
I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator
cries out.
And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering
man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm
of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature.
Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing:
it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental
scale in Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. And it remains
to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair
ever penned.