Notes from Underground

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man." From the dark, damp recesses of a crawlspace in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant launches a scathing attack on the modern world. The "Underground Man" is one of literature's first and greatest anti-heroes—a man who chooses to be miserable, spiteful, and irrational simply to prove that he is free. In a world obsessed with logic, progress, and "enlightened self-interest," he stands as a disturbing reminder that human b...