What was the title of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella about a bitter, isolated narrator?

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella about a bitter, isolated narrator is Notes from Underground.

The work is divided into two parts. The first, “Underground,” presents the narrator’s philosophical reflections on reason, free will, and resentment. The second, “Apropos of the Wet Snow,” dramatizes memories from his earlier life, including humiliating encounters with former schoolmates and Liza, a young woman whom he attempts to influence.

The unnamed narrator is often called the Underground Man in English-language criticism. He is not the same character as Rodion Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, although both figures are psychologically complex first-person or closely focused protagonists.

The novella appeared in the journal Epoch, which was edited by Dostoevsky and his brother Mikhail. Its critique of rational egoism and idealized social planning made it an important precursor to existentialist literature.