“The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status ofNotes from Undergroundas one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.”—from the Introduction by Donald Fanger“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.Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a turning point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale inCrime And Punishment,The Idiot, andThe Brothers Karamazov. And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned.