Notes from Underground & The Double

Posted on 21 December 2018 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is best to do nothing The best thing is conscious inertia So long live the underground Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky s groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ant hill of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence underground The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness.Jessie Coulson s introduction discusses the stories critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy s great novels. Download Notes from Underground & The Double By Fyodor Dostoyevsky – kino-fada.fr I Am the Lowest and the WorstI am 40I am naughtyI am sickI am angryI am uglyI am superstitiousI am undesirableI am differentI am indifferentI am pettyI am nothingI am unstableI am rudeI am impudentI am timidI am frightenedI am vengefulI am lazyI am dirtyI am secretI am wretchedI am self loathingI am humiliatingI am humiliatedI am nastyI am irritableI am irritatingI am snarlingI am spitefulI am unseemlyI am disg...Notes from UndergroundThis was theenjoyable work in this collection I enjoyed the narrator s pithy voice while he went over the events which lead to his living underground It also contains Dostoyevsky s infamously morbid black humour which has you smiling at the most desolate of images I strangely found myself relating with the narrator which probably says a lot about my outlook on lifeThe DoubleGood god this story is 150 pages long and it took me two months to get throughNotes from UndergroundThis was theenjoyable work in this collection I enjoyed the narrator s pithy voice while he went over the events which lead to his living underground It also contains Dostoyevsky s infamously morbid black humour which has you smiling at the most desolate of images I strangely found myself relating with the narrator which probably says a lot about my outlook on lifeThe DoubleGood god this story is 150 pages long and it took me two months to get through Seriously I read Crime and Punishment in 24 hours but this novella took me longer to read than Dostoyevsky probably took to write it It is a juvenile piece of melodramatic garbage, a black smudge on Dostoyevsky s almost perfect oeuvre Its inclusion in this collection baffles me The Double was written when Dostoyevsky was only 25 while Notes from Underground and his other major works were written wh... If spite makes you unworthy of a single pound,Try to write about your life in the underground.If this makes life as cold as ice,To read Dostoevsky is my advice.Notes from underground.The above quasi verse was written by me, not the author of the book so don t be spiteful, gentlemen Apropos of the spite, what can I say about Notes from underground It s simply stunning I would say that I can t understand why some people wouldn t like this book, but I do understand Allow me to tell you my If spite makes you unworthy of a single pound,Try to write about your life in the underground.If this makes life as cold as ice,To read Dostoevsky is my advice.Notes from underground.The above quasi verse was written by me, not the author of the book so don t be spiteful, gentlemen Apropos of the spite, what can I say about Notes from underground It s simply stunning I would say that I can t understand why some people wouldn t like this book, but I do understand Allow me to tell you my personal story behind this book.I was hesitating about reading this novella because of what I ha...I ve not much to say about this book that hasn t been said before Both stories are nice and deep Notes from Underground a mind bender The Double a mind bender in a very different way Though hard going...5 stars for Notes from Underground, 3 for The Double, so 4 overall.Notes from Underground 1864 is sublimely misanthropic, dripping with scorn, blisteringly horrible Its narrator is the anonymous underground man , whose voice and attitude make him seem a practice run for Crime and Punishment s Raskolnikov In the first part of the book, he lays out his personal philosophy, a bitter attack on well, just about everything, including himself In the second, The Story of the Falling Sleet , he 5 stars for Notes from Underground, 3 for The Double, so 4 overall.Notes from Underground 1864 is sublimely misanthropic, dripping with scorn, blisteringly horrible Its narrator is the anonymous underground man , whose voice and attitude make him seem a practice run for Crime and Punishment s Raskolnikov In the first part of the book, he lays out his personal philosophy, a bitter attack on well, just about everything, including himself In the second, The Story of the Falling Sleet , he relates a sequence of events that acts as an illustration of his paranoia, rage and self loathing, starting with his obsessive quest to humiliate an officer he hates, and ending with his cruel rejection of a prostitute, Liza, whom he both loves and despises Despite a lapse into sentimentality when the narra...Hey wait, are you a misanthrope Do you feel betrayed and disappointed with life Are you a bitter, bitter man Why narrator, I never would have guessed Why don t you spend the next hundred pages telling me about it That sounds like loads of fun.A genius of a book written by a mind that can effortlessly delve into the nuts, bolts and avagadros of the psyche.Regard this extract Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind The A genius of a book written by a mind that can effortlessly delve into the nuts, bolts and avagadros of the psyche.Regard this extract Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends He ha...Some bad Dostoyevsky jokes for children 1 Knock, knock.Who s there Rodion Raskolnikov. 2 Why did Ivan Karamazov drive through a red lightview spoiler Because everything is permitted hide spoiler 3 Yakov Golyadkin Sr went to McDonald s and ordered a Big Mac, but he was served something else What was itview spoiler A Double Cheeseburger hide spoiler 4 How did Yakov Golyadkin Sr feel when he saw the new guy at workview spoiler He was beside himself hide spoiler 5 In Some bad Dostoyevsky jokes for children 1 Knock, knock.Who s there Rodion Raskolnikov. 2 Why did Ivan Karamazov drive t...I cannot write This is a quite disturbing book to me, second only to NAUSEA.The narrator, the anti hero who claims to be all we are just too self deluded to be spends his life destroying his life with contradictory outbursts They are contradictory because first he assumes one pose, one that is, generally, judgmental, a point of view against his fellow men Then he spends the next 6 hours regretting what he s done, plotting to undo it,berating himself, but ultimately only sowing confusion I cannot write This is a quit...Shocking I rank it in Dostoevsky s top works along with Crime and Karamazov It remindsof the second, with a difference in volume, due to lack of plot The Underground is probably one of the best ever written books of psychology.Why shocked me Why I read thoughts I ve lived as a teen when I could not explain it yet Nietzsche is absolutely right when he says, The only one who knew something about human psychology was Dostoevsky The incredible monologues in the hero s mind are Shocking I...

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21 December 2018

Fyodor Dostoyevsky