Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for his psychological works of fiction. His characters and plots all carry psychosomatic troubles and problems that help make the stories more relatable to the reader. 'Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories' combines some of Dostoyevsky's shorter works, though they certainly do not lack for depth. 'Notes from Underground' is widely known as the first existential novel because of the raving, maniacal, and incoherent ramblings of its d