Notes | From Underground

Its influence can be seen in works ranging from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man to Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver .

He critiques the "Crystal Palace"—a metaphor for a perfectly rational, utopian society—arguing that humans are inherently irrational and would destroy such a world just to prove they have free will. Part II: À Propos of the Wet Snow Format: A chronological narrative of the narrator's past. Notes From Underground

The book deeply impacted thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche , who saw it as a psychological revelation, and later existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus . Its influence can be seen in works ranging

You aren't supposed to like the narrator, but you may find yourself recognizing his anxieties and contradictions. Notes From Underground