Notes from the Underground: world classics

Notes from the Underground" was written in the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century in the heavy time for Russia. The work is opening a new phase in a creation of Dostoevsky. In this book then existentialism philosophy is formulated for the first time in Russian literature. The hero is a minor official, who suffers from the fact that he belittled by society . He rebels against the conditions of social life. Dostoevsky said about the sense of the rebellion: "I am proud that I showed the majority of the man and exposed his ugly and tragic side for the first time. The tragedy finds in the minds of ugliness