Considerado o livro precursor do existencialismo, Notas do subsolo traz um dos personagens mais notáveis da literatura. O narrador anônimo é um ex-funcionário público que, de modo desafiador, se retira para uma existência subterrânea. De lá, ele rabisca uma narrativa apaixonada, obsessiva e contraditória que serve como um ataque ao utopismo social e uma afirmação da natureza essencialmente irracional do homem.Este clássico de Fiódor Dostoiévksi, originalmente publicado em 1864, foi vertido para o português por Ruth Guimarães.
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.