Author: Dostoievski, Fiodor M.
Publisher: Penguin Clasicos
Pages:184
Jean-Paul Sartre considered it the precursor to the existentialist novel. Written in the form of a dialogue and amounting to a nuanced psychological study, an anonymous civil servant bitterly narrates his tragic life story. This is the portrait of an antihero, a character essential to understanding the profound questions about the human condition the author explores in later novels such as The Gambler and Crime and Punishment.