Notes from Underground

Notes from Underground is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a “confession”: the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title “A Confession”.   The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Und...