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The book deeply impacted thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche , who saw it as a psychological revelation, and later existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus .

Dostoevsky wrote the book as a rebuttal to Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? , which argued that humans could be guided by rational self-interest. Notes From Underground

The Underground Man is a quintessential anti-hero—spiteful, vain, and unreliable, yet painfully relatable in his inner turmoil. ⚡ Cultural Legacy The book deeply impacted thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche

The "Underground Man" introduces himself as a bitter, isolated former civil servant. isolated former civil servant.