Notes from Underground Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead. In this Signet Classic volume can be seen Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The works were written at distinct periods in the author's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answ... more »er. The chracters are representative of th human hearts he probled with such surprising insight. They include a whole range of tormented people--from the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life to the irritating anxious antihero of Notes from Undergrouan, a man who both craves and despises affection.« less