Notes From The Underground

An unnamed narrator, forty years old and consumed by spite, retreats into a basement room in St. Petersburg and begins to talk — about free will, about the humiliations he has never forgiven, about the people he has never stopped resenting. He is petty, self-aware, contradictory, and impossible to look away from. Dostoyevsky's short, savage novella is often called the first true work of existentia...