notes from the underground

[Anonymous No.23411721]

this book is actually fucking hilarious and massively entertaining while setting the stage for the next 150 years that proceeded it. what a masterpiece of a novella. i feel bad for anyone who got filtered by the first half. should be read as an intro to nietzsche.

[Anonymous No.23411892]

>>23411721
i hate it when people say a book is hilarious as if this was a selling point, every goodreads review is about how actually funny a classic is, if i want to laugh i watch a sitcom or be around people not sit alone in a room reading a fucking book NO
moby dick is not hilarious
dosteovsky is not hilarious
beckett is not hilarious
don quixote is not hilarious
STOP IT!!!

[Anonymous No.23411907]

>>23411892
Meds, now

[Anonymous No.23411964]

>>23411721
It is so painfully relatable.

[Anonymous No.23412008]

>>23411721
Dostoevsky was thinking of me when he wrote it

[Anonymous No.23412024]

notice how nobody ever has anything to say about this book except for 'literally me'

>>23411964
>>23412008
can you retards actually say anything about the book?

[Anonymous No.23412044]

>>23412024
It has 2 parts but the first part actually postdates the second

[Anonymous No.23412049]

>>23412024
The philosophic themes are far too subtle for a work like this and people get caught up with the incel guy seething at the other guy who barely thinks of him at the dinner.

[Anonymous No.23412086]

>>23411892
Gogol is quite hilarious

[Anonymous No.23412132]

>proceeded it

[Anonymous No.23412227]

"For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination."

[Anonymous No.23412233]

>Promises to save Liza
>insults the shit out of her

[Anonymous No.23412258]

>>23411721
Yeah, people always underrate Dostoevsky as a comedy writer. Fyodor Karamazov is a spectacular character

[Anonymous No.23412274]

Notes is hilarious in its criticism of the underground man. Most people here read it as an endorsement of le sad incel rather than what it really is: over one hundred pages of (rightly deserved) pointing and laughing. This book is such classic because it demands self reflection; how much of the underground man applies to you?

[Anonymous No.23412396]

>>23411892
It was a safe mechanism in media reviewing site so that anyone will see them as an intellect in digesting an intellectual media (or simply: art) that they're just consoomed. Nobody on the internet would go and arguing with someone who wrote a review that a cinema or literature is 'hilarious'. This is happened on letterboxd all the time, there's always someone who wrote a review about how 'hilarious' the movie was, even though it wasnt and its not the point of the movie at all. But nobody would bother to argue them about it and that person could probably gain internet validity or even internet point without having to take a risk getting their review criticized by someone who are actually more intellectual than they are, simply by saying "this thing is hilarious" and elaborating that hilarious part instead of writing an actual review about it.
Its crazy to learn what people are willing to do for the sake of their existence on the internet

[Anonymous No.23412700]

>>23412258
The comedy in Demons is great too

[Anonymous No.23412854]

>>23411721
My favorite part is when he cucks out like a fuckin hormonal little pu$$y and gives Liza the money because he's too much of a bitch ass nu66a to accept love. That shit always makes me smile because it's nice when a character is relatable

[Anonymous No.23412878]

>>23412233
>>23412854
Hey that sounds like something I would do haha.

[Anonymous No.23414150]

>>23412024
tl;dr Humans beings like suffering and problems, we won't change or care to change. If everything goes, anything can be allowed, laws and such don't really mean much. We are our own problem and we are proud of it.

[Anonymous No.23414745]

>>23412274
that's what i'm saying! even at the end of the book he holds up the mirror to the reader and goes "I know you relate to me. I know what you've been thinking throughout this whole thing. you're just too much of a pussy to take it all the way like I did. surrender to the call of the void."

and then he goes "i'll stop writing here, goodbye" but he doesn't stop - he's literally a guy angry posting online it's incredible.

[Anonymous No.23414967]

>>23411892
>Don Quixote is not hilarious

Bruh.

[Anonymous No.23414976]

i just realized george costanza is the undeground man

[Anonymous No.23414985]

>>23411892
>>23412396
not appreciating when something is supposed to be funny is a sign of something