Notes From The Under Ground (Readings Classics)

One of the most revolutionary of DostoyevskyÕs novels, Notes from Underground was first published in 1864. Considered one of the earliest existentialist novels, it explores the life of an unnamed narrator, an ex-official, who has retreated underground as a protest against the social utopia. Through one of the most celebrated characters in literature, the unnamed narrator, Dostoevsky brings forth the nuanced existence of society's moral expectations. In a complete fallout from society, the novelÕs anti-hero, otherwise known as the underground man, writes a passionate, subversive, and self-opposing account that examines the moral and intellectual fluctuations of the narrator and celebrates man's inherently illogical nature.