Notes From: Underground

You aren't supposed to like the narrator, but you may find yourself recognizing his anxieties and contradictions.

Set sixteen years earlier, it follows his disastrous social interactions, including a humiliating dinner with former schoolmates and a complex encounter with a prostitute named Liza. Notes From Underground

Dostoevsky wrote the book as a rebuttal to Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? , which argued that humans could be guided by rational self-interest. You aren't supposed to like the narrator, but