Dec 22, 2009

Notes From Underground | What Do I Read Next?

Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground has been said to be the seed of his first longer work, Crime and Punishment (1866). The protagonist of this story, Rodion Raskolnikov, resembles the narrator in Notes From Underground in some ways. He lives alone in a shabby apartment and is sickly and broke. He also talks to himself. What he talks about in the beginning of the story is his plan to commit a murder, though he does not yet know who his victim will...