Dostoevsky?s Most Revolutionary Novel, Notes From Underground Marks The Dividing Line Between Nineteenth- And Twentieth-century Fiction, And Between The Visions Of Self Each Century Embodied. One Of The Most Remarkable Characters In Literature, The Unnamed Narrator Is A Former Official Who Has Defiantly Withdrawn Into An Underground Existence. In Full Retreat From Society, He Scrawls A Passionate, Obsessive, Self-contradictory Narrative That Serves As A Devastating Attack On Social Utopianism And An Assertion Of Man?s Essentially Irrational Nature. Underground -- Apropos Of The Wet Snow. Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Translated And Annotated By Richard Pevear And Larissa Volokhonsky. Translation Of: Zapiski Iz Podpol?i A.