Notes from Underground; the DoubleBy: Fyodor Dostoyevsky It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevskys groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ant hill of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence underground.