NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

The page quality and printing quality is awesome.

Dostoyevsky's understanding of the human psyche is exhilarating. I am a lonely guy and rarely do I interact with others. It felt like seeing myself in mirror while reading this book. Dostoyevsky is the master when it comes to telling you a story. Grab this book and you won't regret it. Well yeah you may regret it if you are not much into understanding the human psychology .

I actually had a translation of this book but this one is not that good.

This notes from under ground is nothing but what we feel inwardly in our every day life.So many times we could think to react the situation happening around us in differently but we mask ourselves in a different way that we are unable to open frankly.This is struggling for every one for every day situations.

Notes from the Underground is a captivating novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky that delves deep into the human psyche and societal norms. The story follows an unnamed protagonist, the Underground Man, as he navigates through the complexities of 19th-century Russian society. Dostoevsky's masterful storytelling and intricate character development make this novel a timeless classic.One of the most striking aspects of Notes from the Underground is its exploration of existential themes. The Underground Man grapples with questions of free will, identity, and the meaning of life, leading readers on a thought-provoking journey. Dostoevsky's profound insights into the human condition resonate long after the final page is turned, making this novel a must-read for anyone interested in philosophy or psychology.Overall, Notes from the Underground is a profound and thought-provoking novel that offers a unique glimpse into the human soul. Dostoevsky's powerful prose and existential themes make this book a timeless classic that continues to captivate readers to this day. Whether you're a fan of classic literature or simply enjoy thought-provoking storytelling, Notes from the Underground is sure to leave a lasting impression.

Good printing and quality.

This is about the darkest thoughts about the lowest and the weakest men in society. The narrator is unreliable and incomprehensible at times. However, the book goes onto talk about wide range of Philosophy and Psychological phenomenons such as the master slave morality, utopian society and free will.

I you are a reader who has never read any of Dostoevsky books then be ready to get amused, this book has two parts first part discusses very heavy philosophy and second part discusses how the topics of first part affected the life of underground man. The main motif of this book is "spite".

I am not a native English speaker, nor a Russian speaker so I can't judge of the quality of the translation per se, but I found this version to be easy to read compared to other available Kindle editions.The book is separated in two parts. The first part is of shorter length and is a monologue which introduces the (unnamed) man who narrates the book. The man discusses his view of society with several references to nineteenth century philosophies. I learned a lot while reading the book because there are several references to historic facts, places, philosophies which I didn't know about and went to search on the internet. I was a bit apprehensive to read this book because of the monologue but it's well written and easy to follow. It's even more impressive considering that Dostoyevsky apparently wrote most of this book in one shot, without editing back. The second part of the book describes some events which took place in the man's life, when he was a young adult.This was my second Dostoyevsky. I started with [book:Crime and Punishment|7144] based on recommendations from people on the internet saying it's a good book to start. I think it's great to have read Crime and Punishment before this book because it helped me better grasp Dostoyevsky's style and appreciate more this book.

Reading. Arrival quick and got started on great novel.

The spiteful man from the underground was announcing the advent of nihilism and revealing in this book wha are the consequences of a man whose moral values had been lost track over the course of his life. 40 years before the soviet union takes place this man had in advance exposed the faliure of a system which is predicted upon no beliefs (structural one). A man (in the west) who tries to neglect all the belief system upon which our society was predicted on is obviously going to get himself left in miserable because no man can ever create his own values out of nothingness in the short course of his life. Amazing book.Disclaimer: Don't allow yourself to drift your soul into someone akin to the underground man.

Perfect.This man could be any man, in any place, today. And these qualities are the ones that define universal literature. Being my first book of Dostoyevsky I can declare unabashedly this book the work of a genius. This is the testimony of a man that cheats himself into thinking his self-exile and poverty is the product of a despised society that doesn't recognize his genius (and this made me recall Oscar Wilde's short tale "The Remarkable Rocket"). His life is so minuscule, so devoid of true life, that the petty and forgettable events that occur to him are in his mind are epic battles. He is afraid to live and his mind is rot in bookish fantasies; but he doesn't cross the threshold of his home and work, rendering himself a prisoner. This is a quite spectacular portrait, nobody, not even the lower beings in the social scale, can feel offense from him due to his miserable life; and the end, without spoiling it, is a so complete insult against the anonymous man, that I couldn't avoid to think in the end of (again) Oscar Wilde's (again) short story "The Devoted Friend." I enjoyed it from beginning to end without knowing what to expect.This book applies to our times too. Social networks, especially Twitter, have armies of persons that spend the time there, making tragedies of forgettable trivialities, commenting them as if each word uttered by them were the most important declaration ever, for a public that barely can register (if they do at all) a fraction of a second before passing to the next post. As in "Notes from the Underground" the modern life is harming the humanity of so many. Is the paradox to have potential of more real and diverse human connections but being shy and get stuck only in the written word of books or internet, and unrealistic dreams for the mere fact that they will not move physically to the door to make them real, and they will blame others, victimizing themselves, because in their mind they are geniuses. The irony of writing here, in the loneliness of a borrowed laptop, as if I were writing to an eager audience certainly doesn't escape me x^PThis is another beautiful edition of AmazonClassics. Clean from errors, nice typography, X-Ray, in excellent formatting. The translation is a public domain one, around the end of 19th century I think, but it doesn't feel antiquated, it is a good translation. Amazing book to get.

A book talking about a man who isolated himself from society.The book is basically a man that is thinking, and decided to put everything that he was thinking of on paper, anything that came to his mind was written in his notes; the notes are full of contradictions, regrets, ideas and struggles, and you the reader, are reading these notes.Can't say that I understood everything philosophical in the book, but it was a good read, I liked it.If you liked Crime and Punishment you will most probably like this one as well.If you like to hear the thoughts of a person then this is the book for you. :)