Notes from Underground An Existentialist Novella of Alienation, Psychological Realism, and Rational Egoism in Nineteenth-Century St Petersburg
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Erscheinungsdatum
15.05.2024
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
84
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,6 cm
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136 g
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Anthrazit / Grau
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-7169-2
Notes from Underground is Dostoevsky's fierce, disquieting descent into modern consciousness, narrated by an embittered former civil servant who turns self-analysis into a weapon against himself and the rationalist certainties of his age. Divided between philosophical confession and humiliating social recollection, the novella combines satire, psychological realism, and proto-existential inquiry. Its fractured, argumentative style anticipates modernist interior monologue while challenging nineteenth-century utopian faith in reason, progress, and enlightened self-interest. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote from the extremities of experience: political arrest, a mock execution, Siberian penal servitude, poverty, illness, and spiritual crisis all shaped his understanding of human freedom and moral contradiction. In Notes from Underground, published in 1864, he responds especially to radical materialism and social determinism, insisting that human beings may choose suffering, spite, or irrationality simply to affirm their will. This book is essential for readers interested in the origins of existential literature, psychological fiction, and the darker currents of modern thought. Brief but inexhaustible, it rewards close reading and challenges comforting assumptions about virtue, reason, and self-knowledge.
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Deeply philosophical
This book is definitely not an easy read. It is deeply philosophical and delves into the human mind challenging the reader to question the narrator. In the first half our protagonist seems like a highly intelligent man with an unique insight into society, but in the second part we learn he is only a bitter, despicable man, using his perceived intelligence as a excuse to treat people horribly. Nevertheless it was brilliantly written and I enjoyed it much more than my other read by this author.
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