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And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned. Here's a famous passage often quoted in support of Underground Man's (and by extension, Dostoevsky's) supposed anti-intellectualism: "But all the same, I'm firmly convinced that not only a great deal, but every kind, of intellectual activity is a disease."

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Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky’s writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. I am a wicked man.

I read the classic literature to relax and cure insomnia - I've found treasures in history. This passage was much favored by those of us who believed that having read "Notes From Underground" provided an indication of our own higher consciousness: "This impressed them ... they were all gradually beginning to realize that I was already reading books they could not read and, knew about things (not entering into our specialized course of studies) they had never even heard of. One of these items ships sooner than the other. That's it. He is twenty-four. He needs her a lot more than she needs him.

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Reason is only one part of our temperament, the underground man says.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translations do the best at bringing them as they were truly written. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

I’m not quite sure how to word it, but if you read it for yourself that would be cool, and then you could tell me what it is that I read. They say more in fewer words. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2016. Please try again. He succeeds only at humiliating himself further. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Having given us a rant, the underground man offers experience.

(I've always thought myself cleverer than anybody I knew, and sometimes, if you will, believe me, I've felt quite ashamed of it ...)" (Coulson), "First, because I am more intelligent than everyone around me, and, would you believe, I've even felt slightly ashamed of it ...") (P&V). That made the next passage, in which UGM proclaims his shame at his own intelligence, seem like a contradiction: "First of all, I am cleverer than anyone else around me. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Ad Choices. I have another one to add to the list - Knut Hansum's "Hunger." Dostoevsky himself had recently returned from exile, and his St. Petersburg life in this period was furtive and desperate. I started reading it this morning and am only halfway through the book and it's already one of my top books despite being one of the shorter Dostoevsky novels. There are a handful of books that have the power to create secret societies among their readers, books that make you feel like a cult member. Hell is myself. On and on. ��Y�0۱V�o.m֮{qCP9�y�{.��$ !��&LjI�b�0�\/ �&���q/K:�ߞ���f�������L�1=I��S��XaQ�i/�����q>�%�"� ��\�ʄA��sӡ�0:�n��B�0p�8��]�T��J0��%2k��������ڶ51D�;tDT$\*p}�����^��#h�=շ.J5�{D�}���w���-���W�2+�� ��V'Nm��;Y�T7c�j������m����u��M]��S�n��T�]M_շ�z���Ï��?���S&TI퍕PKlZ]~�V f��3wP}k�Մ%l�I�d>n���6����յ��9o�t�*X�߆��c���gsҺ��x����O����.�}�;����kX��7���"/}�Mw���K� ���� endstream endobj 2032 0 obj <>stream
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Not much of a synopsis for a classic. Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2017.

No one would put up with this guy in his home for more than a half hour. The text, as academics might say, is multivalent, at odds with itself. Amazon cheated! 2024 0 obj <>stream

What’s wrong with such techniques, in both their cynical or ameliorative uses, was simply stated by Sartre, in 1945: “All materialist philosophies create man as an object, a stone.” The underground man says that, on the contrary, human beings are unfathomable, unknowable. Underground Man doesn't trust his own instincts enough to be sure whether his own liver hurts. This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. 5�,�:p-�;g��g�v��_q)��x�rk�8����/Qt��� C��gU�-�;͵��>zZ@�`=���d�"�ȵ��? When working-class whites vote for Republican policies that will further reduce their economic power—are they voting in their best interests? Copyright © 2019 Salon.com, LLC. To revisit this article, select My⁠ ⁠Account, then View saved stories.

But “Notes” is a canny work of literature, not a tract: Dostoevsky may have put his own ideas into the mouth of a brilliant man, but he undermined him as a self-destructive mess at the same time. First couple chapters.... just on and on and on about how he couldn't even be an insect or whatever and you're just like, "wtf? .

If I want to stoke my inner misanthrope, baby, I'll stick with my Hunter S. Thompson. hތP�N1���f2yJUO\PBmo�ê,��E�V��$�"�%9��N�=�e8o=� 2��3��5�$��-܊�p�˅���C�>gB�ϳE�3�)�!r�1Z��d�`DrN0!%����p�[�Væf5�/�y:-��4��;z����t�0�_Ӱ[ΗC����^�Q�o���5l���0.G�R%���YT��m^�^�5��hY�+�Ϫ�UϪg��^n�>�ꗽ�P�����4-�����5��ve+��F.~K"Ħ$R[�m�oK:��$����C�]:�厇ڍ�P��;4�C;4��#3���#� /R� endstream endobj 2029 0 obj <>stream Garnet called it Notes from the Underground in 1918. I mean books that even if you studied them in college didn't quite seem to fit. Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2018.

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They listed an e-book version of the PEVEAR translation and when I downloaded it and opened it on my device it is NOT the same translation as you can see in the peak inside of the printed version. By removing the "If you will" and changing "believe me" to the rhetorical "would you believe," P&V show us that the UGM's humility regarding his own intelligence is a sham. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.

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