Notes from the Underground
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)
Cover: Troika: Apprentices Carrying Water (1866), oil on canvas by Vasily Perov (1834-1882) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1882)
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A bitter retired civil servant in St Petersburg writes his confession from beneath the floorboards of society. Dostoevsky's 1864 short novel, in Constance Garnett's translation, is a harsh and funny monologue against reason and comfort.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.