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Notes from Underground & Scenes from the New World
"A born storyteller with perfect pitch". -- New York Times
Includes Notes From Underground, the increasingly disturbing writings, in diary form, of an urban recluse who wants desperately to belong to society but instead lives in a hell of his own creation; and Scenes from the New World, a play in three acts, in which a narrator participates in hilarious and troubl
...morePaperback, 176 pages
Published
November 1st 1997
by Theatre Communications Group
(first published 1993)
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I read this for the first time as an accent piece to a study of adolescent pyschology back in high school. I remember thinking that it had the feel of Chuck Palahnuik meets Holden Caufield meets One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest.
Not one of my favorites from Bogosian. I'm usually quite impressed with his plays, but "Notes From Underground" is lacking. Okay, but not as clever as his other work.
"Notes From Underground" is a mock diary written in the early 1980s.
However, the second half of my copy contained the play "Scenes From the New World" which I think I enjoyed more.
However, the second half of my copy contained the play "Scenes From the New World" which I think I enjoyed more.
I read this while I was in the hospital over the summer. It's in journal form and it tells the story of a man's gradual decent into madness through his various awkward observations and socially deviant behavior. Entertaining, but not groundbreaking.
very funny. he writes about things that would only be possible in a world without laws.
Nothing better than a book about cheetoes and masturbation
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Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist.
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