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A review by gerdamightbemyname
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5.0
I think I need to give up trying to review this book, I am simply not able to describe how it made me feel.
All I can say is that Dostoevsky writes like no other, the way he can make the reader suffer with the characters is incredible. The underground guy is just miserable and now so am I (thanks Dostoevsky).
Anyway, here’s a few quotes that I believe summarise the book better than I do:
“I’m a sick man…a spiteful man…”
“To be too much aware of things is an illness- a real, genuine illness.”
“And man sometimes loves suffering terribly, passionately so - and this is a fact.”
“Anyway, what can an honest man talk about with the greatest possible pleasure?
Answer: about himself.
So I too will talk about myself.”
“Am I really made for the sole purpose of coming to the conclusion that the way I am arranged is just a swindle?”
“But perhaps a normal person is bound to be stupid.”
All I can say is that Dostoevsky writes like no other, the way he can make the reader suffer with the characters is incredible. The underground guy is just miserable and now so am I (thanks Dostoevsky).
Anyway, here’s a few quotes that I believe summarise the book better than I do:
“I’m a sick man…a spiteful man…”
“To be too much aware of things is an illness- a real, genuine illness.”
“And man sometimes loves suffering terribly, passionately so - and this is a fact.”
“Anyway, what can an honest man talk about with the greatest possible pleasure?
Answer: about himself.
So I too will talk about myself.”
“Am I really made for the sole purpose of coming to the conclusion that the way I am arranged is just a swindle?”
“But perhaps a normal person is bound to be stupid.”