Dostoevsky's Psychological Exploration “To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground Notes from the Underground is the diary of an unnamed narrator who has completely withdrawn from society. One of Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece novels, Notes from the Underground combines elements of fiction and philosophy in a psychological novel that explores the existential angst of one man in nineteenth-century Russia.

世間から軽蔑され虫けらのように扱われた男は、自分を笑った世界を笑い返すため、自意識という「地下室」に潜る。世の中を怒り、憎み、攻撃し、そして後悔の念からもがき苦しむ、中年の元小官吏のモノローグ。終わりのない絶望と戦う人間の姿が、ここにある。