A predecessor to such monumental works as Crime and Punishment and TheBrothers Karamazov Notes From Underground represents a turning point inDostoyevskys writin... » 

A predecessor to such monumental works as Crime and Punishment and TheBrothers Karamazov Notes From Underground represents a turning point inDostoyevskys writing towards the more political side. In this work we followthe unnamed narrator of the story who disillusioned by the oppression andcorruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society intothe underground. A dark and politically charged novel Notes From Undergroundshows Dostoyevsky at his best. In Dostoyevskys The Double we see an intensepsychological study of its main character Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin agovernment clerk who becomes obsessed with the idea that a fellow clerk hastaken over his identity. Notes From Underground and The Double are two ofDostoyevskys more popular shorter works which exhibit the authors uncannyability to portray the darker side of the human psyche. «