Notes from Underground

The works of the great Dostoevsky's minor prose, very different in style and manner - amusing and tragic, satirical and lyrical. Notes from Underground is one of the most brilliant novellas of Dostoevsky, in which he again addresses the problem of the little man, crushed by the stone giants of Petersburg, but depicts this not in a lyrical form, but with merciless satire. An astonishingly deep and psychological story is Gentle and sad, piercing The Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree. Witty, caustic The Crocodile and ironic The Eternal Husband. Dostoevsky was unrelenting towards the reality of his time - he rendered it a ruthless verdict, using all the numerous facets of his literary talent for this purpose.