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A review by jsonb
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.0
Upon immersing myself in Wikipedia pages on 19th century Russian culture and philosophy, I found this book to be an interesting and relevant treatise on finding meaning in the Absurd.
I enjoyed reading secondary sources almost as much as the primary, most notably "Nihilism and 'Notes from Underground'" by Joseph Frank (http://www.jstor.org.silk.library.umass.edu/stable/27540632), "The Case against Rational Egoism in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground" by James P. Scanlan (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/v060/60.3scanlan.html -can provide PDFs upon requests if I know you) and David Foster Wallace's "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky (http://www.amazon.com/Consider-Lobster-David-Foster-Wallace/dp/0316156116). Each essay helped frame this piece against Dostoevsky's life, culture and politics, without which the reader will be missing out on this little ditty.
I enjoyed reading secondary sources almost as much as the primary, most notably "Nihilism and 'Notes from Underground'" by Joseph Frank (http://www.jstor.org.silk.library.umass.edu/stable/27540632), "The Case against Rational Egoism in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground" by James P. Scanlan (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/v060/60.3scanlan.html -can provide PDFs upon requests if I know you) and David Foster Wallace's "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky (http://www.amazon.com/Consider-Lobster-David-Foster-Wallace/dp/0316156116). Each essay helped frame this piece against Dostoevsky's life, culture and politics, without which the reader will be missing out on this little ditty.