Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground presents the bitter reflections of an unnamed narrator, a retired civil servant living in isolation. Through his fragmented monologue, he rejects society’s rational ideals and exposes the contradictions of human nature. His confessions reveal deep loneliness, pride, and self-destructive introspection. The novel explores existential freedom, alienation, and the dark complexity of the human psyche.