Notes from Underground, about an individual’s breakaway from society and descent “underground”, and is considered a prelude to the great novels of his later years. Also written after 1859 was a short novel, The Brothers Karamazov, came in the post-Siberia period, written under pressure of deadlines and personal crisis. After his return from Siberia a decade later, he harped on man’s need for self-expression - “the need to affirm oneself, to distinguish oneself, to stand out.,” which can manifest itself sometimes “quite crudely and even savagely.” His most celebrated writings, including They were rounded up in 1849, and Dostoevsky was sent to a labour camp in Siberia.
In the late 1840s, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky became a part of the Petrashevsky Circle, a group of radically-inclined intellectuals who spoke out against the ills of society like serfdom.
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