Notes from the Underground
Author: first_name: Fyodor
last_name: Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Year: 1864

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if published now (a century and a half later)  <em>Notes</em> would be considered an avant-garde post-modernist triumph. In some ways this is a heavy text, laden with conversational philosophizing; but the vividness of the narrator make it a wonderful read, and funny.<br />
(Review by Hu