Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Author: Fyodor DostoevskyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-17
ISBN: 1600960839
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Waking Lion Press
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Book Review: Bracing expose of 19th century thinking
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a dark comedy exposing the vanity of liberal enlightenment thinking. The book is often grim, bracing, and anti-climactic. It is the story of some deranged lunatic who boasts of his inability to adapt to society. He is indeed sick, as the opening line, one of the most famous in all of literature, suggests.
In many ways this book is a dark parallel to St Augustine's *Confessions.* But unlike Augustine, this is not a book of praise. The first part of the book he explains in a few thoughts what is wrong with him and society. IN the second part of the book he illustrates that by a dinner party with some worthless people who have happened to have found some money in their position in life. The most (anti) climactic part is at the end, in his conversation with the prostitute Liza. Does he save her? Or does she save him? At any rate, we soon see that it is not the narrator but society that is sick.
This is a very important read, but it is not an enjoyable one. It is the part of Dostoevsky that the more liberal (and I use that in the original sense of the word, that of 18th-19th century Enlightenment philosophy) elitists do not want to see: this is where Slavophilism enters its more deadly phase.
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