Mindy's review
Notes from the Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and selections from The House of the Dead
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mindy's review
Notes from the Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mindy's review
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This is the first time I have read Dostoyevsky, and maybe I should've saved myself for a novel b/c I was not overly impressed with these short stories. They weren't BAD, but I guess I was expecting to be blown away b/c you know, it's Dostoyevsky, right? Now, I will say that the narrator of "Notes from the Underground" might be the most repulsive character I've ever read. I guess that is pretty powerful, huh? Actually, I enjoyed the afterword (a short bio, mostly) as much as any of the stories, and it gave me a lot of insight into where the stories came from, especially the dejection and cynicism of the later stories.
