Notes from Underground is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. This is presented as an essay by a bitter, isolated, anonymous author (usually known to critics as the Underground Man) to a retired civil servant living in St. Louis. Petersburg What Is to Be Done? attack the text.The second half of the book, called "Àpropos of the Wet Snow," covers several events that seem to deteriorate and sometimes give rise to an underground character acting as a first-person, narrator who cannot be trusted the other, Dostoyevsky again confronts the idea of free will, Kirillov's no suicide in The Demons The character builds a negative argument to validate free will against determinism Notes from Underground Beginning of Dostoevsky's move from psychological and sociological fiction to fiction based on both life and human experience in crisis and the making of war, and this is what defines human history Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called Dostoevsky “the only psychologist, how anyway, from whom I had everything to learn.