Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short novel in two parts: the bitter monologue of a retired civil servant living in a St. Petersburg cellar, who argues against reason and progress, followed by his memories of humiliation at a dinner party and his cruelty to the young woman Liza. It was first published in Russian in 1864. This edition follows Constance Garnett’s public-domain English translation (1918).