num_pages: 130
description: Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground".
language: English
title: Notes from Underground
titlecomplete: Notes from Underground
characters: The underground man
genres: Russia, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Psychology, Russian Literature, Classics, Classic Literature, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 143598
places: Russia, Eastern Europe
publisher: Vintage