Notes from the Underground (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (1821-1881) was a Russian author and journalist regarded as one of the greatest novelists in all of literature whose rich exploration of human psychology in the troubled political social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia and penetrating analyses of philosophical and religious themes at large had an immeasurable influence on 20th-century fiction with many of his works now considered unparalleled masterpieces. His revolutionary 1864 novella </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Notes from the Underground</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> featuring one of the most remarkable characters in literature is considered one of the first works of literary existentialism whose brooding unnamed narrator defiantly retreats from the anthill of society into an underground existence to document his discursive memories and probe the savage truth of the torment he is suffering. Angry and alienated his obsessive self-contradictory narrative is one of the most provocative works of literature ever written.</span></p>