Notes From the Underground
Impressions
- mendozajamilamedizinashared an impressionlast month
👍Worth reading💡Learnt A Lotat first glance, this book may not be desirable or to be picked up by a general reader, even an avid one. (unless you're fond of Dostoevsky's works)---even regarding its vast popularity in the classic literature sphere. (i thought it was fully about nihillism which i don't really like.) philosophy is intimidating, and this book is, too. however, it is to be read with a grain of salt and not to take everything said seriously.
it touched depths in my cognitivity with its tone of spite, ridicule, and self-loathing; it's humanising and not condescending. (i am that way, too, but i am recovering from it.) the Underground man is a spiteful, unattractive man that narrates and describes his life to be horrible and questions why he lives. he is very isolate, as seen from his interactions with his fellow citizens, his previous school's acquaintances, and the woman he hated yet connected especially with, Liza.
i think the book's comments on conciousness is authentic to its core.
it had laughs here and there due to the way the Underground man puts himself in the book---instances such as him insulting his acquaintances behind their backs and accepting his fate.
worth a read.
8.5/10. - b8627429365shared an impression2 years ago
👍Worth reading"Notes from the Underground" is an interesting but complex book. It’s about a man who thinks too much and struggles with his own thoughts and feelings.
- dlj1995shared an impression5 years ago
👍Worth readingVery wizardly
Quotes
- b4063241149has quoted3 years agoThey laughed cynically at my face, at my clumsy figure; and yet what stupid faces they had themselves.
- dream sunnyhas quoted2 years ago
As the children grow up you feel that you are an example, a support for them; that even after you die your children will always keep your thoughts and feelings, because they have received them from you, they will take on your semblance and likeness. - se0enahas quotedlast year
Why, do you suppose he really loves you, that lover of yours? I don’t believe it. How can he love you when he knows you may be called away from him any minute? He would be a low fellow if he did! Will he have a grain of respect for you? What have you in common with him? He laughs at you and robs you—that is all his love amounts to! You are lucky if he does not beat you. Very likely he does beat you, too. Ask him, if you have got one, whether he will marry you. He will laugh in your face, if he doesn’t spit in it or give you a blow—though maybe he is not worth a bad halfpenny himself. And for what have you ruined your life, if you come to think of it?
