To Love Is To Suffer And There Can Be No Love Otherwise Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From The Undergroundthe Darkly Fascinating Novella Notes From The Underground Was Written By Fyodor Dostoyevsky In 1864, Shortly Before He Penned His Lengthier Later Novels, Including The Brothers Karamazov And Crime And Punishment.considered By Many To Be One Of The First Existentialist Novels It Follows The Complicated Mind Of A Bitter, Retired Civil Servant (generally Referred To By Critics As The Underground Man), Who Lives Alone In St. Petersburg, Russia In The Mid 19th Century.able To Retire After Recently Inheriting Some Money, The Narrator In Full Retreat From Society Has Defiantly Withdrawn Into An Underground Existence. In Full Retreat From Society, He Scrawls A Passionate, Obsessive, Self-contradictory Rambling Narrative That Runs The Gamut From Human Morality, To Logic And Reason And Serves As A Devastating Attack On Emerging Western And Contemporary Russian Philosophy, As Well As Social Utopianism And An Assertion Of Mans Essentially Irrational Nature.