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There is a line in the book that reads,’ what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure?’
Answer: Of himself. ‘Well, then I will talk about myself. Thus begins the story of an intriguing man, who says he has tried to become an insect many times and failed. Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Arushi Book Enterprises, Notes from Underground is a
fictional memoir, the story of a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The author of the
diary and the diary are imaginary but the circumstances he talks about and the concerns he
raises are real. He describes isolation, challenges ideologies and questions utopia.
 
Dostoyevsky is admired for his contradictory heroes, his sense of evil and naked truth and
Notes from Underground lives to your expectations. It is disturbing and dazzling