Notes From Underground [ TRUSTED ✪ ]

Reading an edition with historical notes can help clarify the specific 19th-century Russian ideologies Dostoevsky was mocking.

He critiques the "Crystal Palace"—a metaphor for a perfectly rational, utopian society—arguing that humans are inherently irrational and would destroy such a world just to prove they have free will. Part II: À Propos of the Wet Snow Format: A chronological narrative of the narrator's past. Notes From Underground

Its influence can be seen in works ranging from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man to Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver . Reading an edition with historical notes can help