Publisher's Synopsis
The novelette contains two quite different parts. In the first part the underground man introduces himself, complaining and railing against progress and anything that is scientific. The second part is a flashback to when he was twenty-four years old, recounting some bizarre incidents from his social life: deep resentment against an officer, and against fellow schoolmates which culminate in a disastrous dinner party, and his meeting of Liza-the proverbial lonely prostitute with the golden heart. In the end one is left pondering whether there's love and redemption in the human-or only perversion.
