/lit/ - Literature

Could /lit/ recommend some novels that deal with an introspective narrater in a positive way? Many thanks and I'll delete the thread if it becomes redundant so as not to clog up your board.

I ask because I'm reading Notes From Underground and I'd like a refreshing contrast to read afterwards.

Am I losing anything by not reading a book in its original language?

Exactly what was the point Dostoyevsky was making with Notes from the Underground?

Is there even any point of reading translations of texts? Surely the authors intent is corrupted by language barriers and the translators own disposition?

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A brilliant book about nihilism, misanthropy and over all misery. was written in 1864 by fyodor dostoyevsky. only miserable faggots need apply.

angsty

Dostoyevsky is my favorite author.

Recommend me others.

ok, so.
Too many shity threads about non-/lit/ stuff. Since you all love my Pros/Cons book reviews, I'll write you one right now.

Book Review: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pros
-There is never a moment that seems unrealistic (hence realism literature)
-Hilarious (so many comic reliefs)
-Intriguingly contradicting (most likely to illustrate the point of Man’s unceasing desire to exact his own free-will, even if it means to contradict himself: as is stated in the intro essay)
-Inspirational/Inspired a lot of future writers (Chuck Palahniuk hack job fuckos some things from Underground Man for fight club) (one example, the narrator of underground man goes at length describing the pleasure derived from a tooth ache, while in Fight club, the protagonists goes at length to explain how a kanker sore would go away if only you would stop tonguing it.)
-Awkward (I love awkward)
-You can never escape the feeling that the author is pouring his own life experience into the story (feels cool and authentic)
-Existential philosophies are pronounced, in that, there is deliberate emphasis on other character’s personal human experience. The story does not simply centre on the main character’s experience of reality (who is also an anti-hero)
-Unimportant details that do not bore you to hear them (like getting a new fox pelt collar)
-Morose/macabre/misanthropic
-Extremely original
-Withstands the test of time
-The narrator’s amusing self-awareness
-The underground man can both be loved and hated at the same time
-Personally relatable (at some kind of level) (for example, I’m sure everyone here has done things that weren’t in accordance with your beliefs, which you regret later) (Choosing to inflict sorrow onto yourself rather than endure boredom)
-Stereotypically Russian

Underground man is such a fucking aspie

The point of this book is that, this guy has no life so he has no idea what he's talking about and the story with the prostitute was his one chance for love and a real life, but by trying to pay her off and her refusal shows he has no life and no idea what he's talking about.

I'm drunk right now.

All I've gotta say, is I'm only 5 chapters into the brothers karamazov and its already 10x better than notes.

Almost finished this, but I feel like most of it went way over my head.

What exactly is it about the mid nineteenth century culture that in theory produces people like The Underground Man? Explain/Discuss this book here...