Notes from Underground
Dostoevsky wrote the most influential novella in modern literature — a bitter, self-aware narrator who tears apart every rational system for improving humanity.
“I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.”
Why It Matters
Dostoevsky wrote the most influential novella in modern literature — a bitter, self-aware narrator who tears apart every rational system for improving humanity. The Underground Man is the prototype for every unreliable narrator, every alienated antihero, every voice that refuses to be optimistic. Existentialism, absurdism, and the modern novel all start in this basement.
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Personal reviewAwesome philosophical concepts. You get in the head of an absolute insane person that has some shred of a point. I was entranced. Very very dark though
Notable Quotes
“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.”
“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness... and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.”