About "Notes from Underground" by Dostoevsky: “Dostoevsky’s novels are turbulent plumbing, swirling storms, whirlpools that whisper and boil and engulf us. They are composed exclusively and only from the essence of the soul. Against our will, we are pushed in, we swirl, we are blinded, we drown, and at the same time we are filled with ecstatic happiness. . ....