/lit/ - Literature

Am I supposed to feel called out like this? Because I feel called out.

>>23187085

How the fuck did Dosto managed to write a character like that?
He's more accurately describing myself than I could ever do so myself.

Which translation is best? Thx

>write up incel novella 150 years before incelism goes mainstream

Alright, some of you /lit/ niggers are pretty big brained, well read and shit. Give me your best refutation of the blackpill. I'm generally fucked, but I've noticed my mental health deteriorating even more so since I started consuming blackpill content.
Pic semi-related I suppose.

He was kinda right, that friend group really did seem like a bunch of fags, especially the German one.

How does one cease to be like the Underground Man? Is it possible?

>>22329887

How do I escape such fate?

How will this book make me feel? I need something dark and cathartic like Book of the Disquiet

>>22265172
There is a certain sweetness to be found in self destruction, unlike any other.
When you give all the money you have in your pocket to a beggar.
When you overindulge in alcohol, far past the point of drunkenness, and you continue drinking knowing that you shouldn't.
When you generously loan money to family, knowing you won't ever get it back, not because you want to help them, but because you want to have less of it.
When you concoct the most vile, hurtful thing you can imagine and you tell it to a chick you vibe with.
It all stems from a deep self-loathing, one that's usually warranted.

Does toy ev ski?

Fuck the guy in this book he sucks

This is from Notes from the Underground:
>I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not, why I could not even become an insect. I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness. For man’s everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe. (There are intentional and unintentional towns.) It would have been quite enough, for instance, to have the consciousness by which all so-called direct persons and men of action live. I bet you think I am writing all this from affectation, to be witty at the expense of men of action; and what is more, that from ill-bred affectation, I am clanking a sword like my officer. But, gentlemen, whoever can pride himself on his diseases and even swagger over them?
>Though, after all, everyone does do that; people do pride themselves on their diseases, and I do, may be, more than anyone. We will not dispute it; my contention was absurd. But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease. I stick to that.

chud.

Why do you guys like this book? I have never read a more brutal takedown of the /lit/cel archetype

>>21940182
This helped me.

>>21873047
Picrel.
Bar none.
Bar fucking none.

It's just a bitchy slav complaining about his life. Why are people saying it's a classic?

Post books that saved you from yourself.

damn, this Dostoyevsky guy really just made a book about me

Bump, I read Meditations when I was depressed, and it provided me with a healthy mindset to emulate, so it's a good book to give someone once they're decided that they want to pull themselves out of the muck. But in the meantime, he might want something less intensive to read that'll still wake him up. I recommend Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky. That book made me self consciousness enough to try and push myself out of my depression.