A stunning book packed with thought-provoking ideas, amazing statements, and elegant sentences, "Notes from the Underground" is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1864. Yet it remains as fresh and relevant today as the day it was first published. It is the first existentialist novel, a sarcastic, self-effacing account of a man living by his own terms - the "Underground Man" - who narrates his thoughts and ideas to the reader as he walks the dark streets of a city's underworld.