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I've just gotten myself into /lit/ and I got some classics and started reading. I've started off by reading Notes from Underground and my brain just fucking hurts. I have to read this shit 3 times to understand and I still don't understand. Should I just push through and finish it, with the hopes that I would become more intelligent and to gain the ability to read challenging texts or is being hard-headed and carrying on a fruitless path?
- /lit/ brainlet.

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>>11299986
What? Notes is one of Dostoyevsky’s easier works. Try so high school level literature then

>> No.11300022

The first half is the ramblings of an insane man the second half is hilarious

>> No.11300472

>>11299995
Ha you think Notes from the Underground is easier than Crime and Punishment? Damn you missed the book's whole point. It is both a critique of liberal humanism and a parody of the resentful humanistic man brought to his logical conclusion.

>> No.11300480

>>11299986
Just read some genrefic for a couple of months before you pass onto the classics OP

>> No.11300483

Should've gotten the Norton Critical Edition.

>> No.11300490

>>11299986
you get used to it after the first couple chapters. it’s not that hard. part II is way easier because it’s less rambling

>> No.11302137

>>11299986
>>11300490
Notes from Underground is one book where you should definitely read the Foreword. In which case Part 1 probably goes from 10/10 difficult (IDK for sure, I immediately started with the Foreword) to 5/10 difficult.