Notes from Underground

<b>The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of <i>Notes from Underground</i> as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.--from the Introduction by Donald Fanger</b> <p/>I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so from underground emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. <i>Notes From Underground</i> published in 1864 marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in <i>Crime And Punishment</i> <i>The Idiot</i> and <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>. And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned.