From the Back Cover Fyodor Dostoevskys novella Notes from the Underground (1864) is considered one of the great masterpieces of world literature. The nameless narrator, a former civil servant in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, has withdrawn into an underground existence; here he inscribes his most ascetic ruminations of the alienating constraints of society and mans self-imposing irrationality. About the Author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His work probed profound depths of human nature, with an indomitable insight into mans relationship with society, religion, and philosophical inquiry. Dostoevskys first novel, Poor Folks (1846) immediately established his literary reputation.
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