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zen_chaos 's review for:
Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is a reread of a book I liked a long time ago. Three are some thought provoking ideas here, but the use of the narrators anxiety to illustrate the idea of consciousness being torment could have been carried out better - its a bit oversold in the constant explanation to the reader in the first bit and a bit too telling of the narrators flaws in the latter; his assumption of his companions thoughts and reactions, and his full of himself judgements, leave one a bit wanting of her actual perspective /or a bit more awareness that he could be wrong ( very emblematic of gender assumptions and moralizing at the time which you think would be separated from the ' underground' position). Also, though I figure, again, its purposeful, I forgot just how unlikable the narrator is. Anti heroes in our current age have redeeming qualities, though they also often are the antithesis of this narrator in being actors and not just tormented thinkers. That being said, I still see kernels of why I liked it too begin with- for those with anxiety and high awareness of complicated knowledge frames adorning interpretation, consciousness can bring torment- ha! Overall, 3.5ish stars