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suicidylan_epub's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
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Dostoievsky desarrolla un juego casi humorístico de la condición humana más exacerbada y derivada en un círculo de inestabilidad. Su protagonista, el hombre del subsuelo, es despreciable en un modo correspondiente a la visión infundada y malévola con que percibe sus acciones. Pero es una maldad consciente de sí, tanto como de su incapacidad de superar la bajeza moral en su presunción de autoproclamarse a sí mismo como malvado. No menos cierto es que mediante él aún así se percibe la empatía del autor por el rechazo a la estructura social parodiada correctamente en el libro.
Por otro lado, ese choque entre la esencia intelectual e ilustrada de su personaje no concuerda asolutamente con este pseudo-romanticismo hacia su visión personal. Así sucede que tanto su relato como su preámbulo dialogado sobre la concepción externa hace de Memorias del Subsuelo un retrato rico en interpretaciones. Mediante cada párrafo Dostoievsky planea hilos de oraciones arropadas por una frialdad y egolatría que le dan un easpecto real y realizable.
Un último triunfo es el de la novela en tratarse como un texto autobiográfico que tiene como finalidad la singular presencia del titubeo en que su ridículo protagonista se ve envuelto. Cierto es, como especifico en los tags, que no hay un amplio desarrollo de personaje; no por ello hemos de negarle la impotrancia del relato presente. ¿Qué quiere decir con la hisoria de Liza y los compañeros de escuela? Para mí es una presencia de los antecedentes de la alienación como un suceso perdurable respecto a la formación de los individuos, a quienes el protagonista percibe como patéticos y canones risibles de la comunión social rusa. Del mismo modo percibe en un inicio a Liza, no mas que un ser maleable a voluntad de la maldad; mas explora las peculiaridades de la ternura en su debilidad por la sensación, comprendiendo dos miradas distintas de ese romanticismo grotesco retratado en la obra: el de la bondad pasional y la maldad alienante .
Brillante, un libro que me acompañó bastante (no atrajo del todo mi interés, pero sus atributos son evidentes).
Dostoievsky desarrolla un juego casi humorístico de la condición humana más exacerbada y derivada en un círculo de inestabilidad. Su protagonista, el hombre del subsuelo, es despreciable en un modo correspondiente a la visión infundada y malévola con que percibe sus acciones. Pero es una maldad consciente de sí, tanto como de su incapacidad de superar la bajeza moral en su presunción de autoproclamarse a sí mismo como malvado. No menos cierto es que mediante él aún así se percibe la empatía del autor por el rechazo a la estructura social parodiada correctamente en el libro.
Por otro lado, ese choque entre la esencia intelectual e ilustrada de su personaje no concuerda asolutamente con este pseudo-romanticismo hacia su visión personal. Así sucede que tanto su relato como su preámbulo dialogado sobre la concepción externa hace de Memorias del Subsuelo un retrato rico en interpretaciones. Mediante cada párrafo Dostoievsky planea hilos de oraciones arropadas por una frialdad y egolatría que le dan un easpecto real y realizable.
Un último triunfo es el de la novela en tratarse como un texto autobiográfico que tiene como finalidad la singular presencia del titubeo en que su ridículo protagonista se ve envuelto. Cierto es, como especifico en los tags, que no hay un amplio desarrollo de personaje; no por ello hemos de negarle la impotrancia del relato presente.
Brillante, un libro que me acompañó bastante (no atrajo del todo mi interés, pero sus atributos son evidentes).
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Emotional abuse and Sexual content
kubs's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Alcohol
shibbie's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, and Violence
Moderate: Bullying and Classism
Minor: Rape and Alcohol
hjb_128's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Alcohol, and Classism
Moderate: Bullying and Confinement
saomah5566's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, and Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts
jungleboyreads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Hello. This is my review. This literature challenged my beliefs and my skill. Deep dark nights spent slaving behind the pages tears wheeling in my eyes. What God assigns value in us but takes it in forms of anxiety and depression. Please read this book if you want to be a revolutionary. Henry / jungleboyreads signing out…
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Bullying
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challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
This was my first time reading Dostoevsky and, for me, his writing is a middle ground between confusing and brilliant.
This is a very heavy and dense book but that completely transmits to the reader the utter caos that is going on in the main character's head. His feelings of not want to belong to the society but, at the same time, being alone. He wants to be left alone but wants to be noticed. He wants to be independent from others but wants to be loved.
Confusing!
Brilliant!
This is a very heavy and dense book but that completely transmits to the reader the utter caos that is going on in the main character's head. His feelings of not want to belong to the society but, at the same time, being alone. He wants to be left alone but wants to be noticed. He wants to be independent from others but wants to be loved.
Confusing!
Brilliant!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment
poubelleboi's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Minor: Bullying, Misogyny, Alcohol, and Classism
gailbird's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I don’t really know what to say about Notes from Underground. I’ve read it twice now. It was my first taste of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky and it made me want to read more by him. Although it is in translation, I like Dostoyevsky’s style that comes through. A bitterly funny, self-deprecating introduction to the narrator and his life sets us in the class-driven system of civil life in Russia of the mid-1800s; however the feelings and ideas portrayed don’t seem at all outdated or unique to the time period, but applicable to any time, no matter how supposedly “modern” it is, and any system of government, no matter how supposedly idealogically opposed to the feudal Russia of this time it is.
The narrator quickly lapses into dark musings on life and the psychology of morality, setting up for the incidents that he stumbles through later. The first third of the book is quite a rambling of philosophies, general descriptions of the man’s mode of life, and his isolation in his hatred for not only the greater part of humanity but also for himself. While it is slow, it is thought-provoking and gives a necessary backdrop for the sequence of events following. Basically, reading it is like getting a view of this guy’s view into his own head.
It’s unsettling, and not always because of how bizarre and perverse it is, because there is that too, but because of how eerily familiar it is. There is something about Dostoyevsky’s writing that seems to be able to elucidate things I didn’t know I knew, or felt. Being so lonely that you impose yourself on people you know don’t care enough about you to include you in their lives, but you go anyway and pretend that you aren’t aware of how little you mean to them, just to have someone to talk to. Being at an event with other people and not being able to speak a word, because the longer you let the silence go, the harder it is to insert yourself. Finding someone you relate to unexpectedly, only to realise that you can’t let the intimacy continue because you’ll lose some critical, malignant part of yourself that you have nursed for years. Doing or saying the one thing that you know will hurt them, drive them away, because you know them… because they are you. The underground dweller finds himself in all these situations, seeing his own fraudulence and posturing even while he enacts it, commenting on it sarcastically to himself, and the reader. His self-awareness is even more disheartening because it doesn’t stop him from doing these destructive things, calling into question whether there is the possibility of change or growth at all, or if some things are just inevitable.
It’s a short book (novella actually) but it feels heavy to read, not because of the writing style, but because of the concepts about humanity, society, psychology, and sin. All things common to Dostoyevsky, and what I will be looking forward to more of when I finally read Crime and Punishment.
It’s unsettling, and not always because of how bizarre and perverse it is, because there is that too, but because of how eerily familiar it is. There is something about Dostoyevsky’s writing that seems to be able to elucidate things I didn’t know I knew, or felt. Being so lonely that you impose yourself on people you know don’t care enough about you to include you in their lives, but you go anyway and pretend that you aren’t aware of how little you mean to them, just to have someone to talk to. Being at an event with other people and not being able to speak a word, because the longer you let the silence go, the harder it is to insert yourself. Finding someone you relate to unexpectedly, only to realise that you can’t let the intimacy continue because you’ll lose some critical, malignant part of yourself that you have nursed for years. Doing or saying the one thing that you know will hurt them, drive them away, because you know them… because they are you. The underground dweller finds himself in all these situations, seeing his own fraudulence and posturing even while he enacts it, commenting on it sarcastically to himself, and the reader. His self-awareness is even more disheartening because it doesn’t stop him from doing these destructive things, calling into question whether there is the possibility of change or growth at all, or if some things are just inevitable.
It’s a short book (novella actually) but it feels heavy to read, not because of the writing style, but because of the concepts about humanity, society, psychology, and sin. All things common to Dostoyevsky, and what I will be looking forward to more of when I finally read Crime and Punishment.
Content Warnings
Minor: Bullying, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Classism