Notes from Underground

What happens when a man rejects society—and himself? Notes from Underground (1864), by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is a groundbreaking novella that dives into the mind of one of literature's most unforgettable narrators: the bitter, unnamed "Underground Man." Living in self-imposed isolation in St. Petersburg, the narrator launches into a scathing monologue against society, reason, and the illusions ...