Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a great Russian writer in the nineteenth century. Dostoyevsky's works are noted for their exploration of human psychology in the difficult society that he lived in. With classics such as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, and others, Dostoyevsky remains one of the most translated authors in history. Notes from Underground is thought to be one of the first existentialist novels ever written. The book is noted for centering around an unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.