Kristina's review
Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kristina's review
Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kristina's review
rating:
This book is broken into two parts. The first part is a rambling narrative that I almost couldn't get through because it seemed to be going nowhere. However, the contraditory anti-hero produced so many profound statements that I knew I had to suffer through to catch the hidden gems. The second part suddenly broke into a story that captivated me. Overall, the narrator made me sick, but it was the kind of sick I couldn't look away from.
Fav. quotes:
"Men like that, men of action, doers, quite genuinely give up when faced with a wall; to them a wall is not a challenge, as it is to us, for example, men who think and therefore don't do anything." pg. 20
"Oh if only it was out of laziness that I do nothing! Lord, how much I should respect myself then!" pg.28
"Boredom leads to every kind of ingenuity." pg. 33
"Our desires are for the most part mistaken because of our erroneous view of our own interest." pg. 34
"...Perhaps through cu...more
Fav. quotes:
"Men like that, men of action, doers, quite genuinely give up when faced with a wall; to them a wall is not a challenge, as it is to us, for example, men who think and therefore don't do anything." pg. 20
"Oh if only it was out of laziness that I do nothing! Lord, how much I should respect myself then!" pg.28
"Boredom leads to every kind of ingenuity." pg. 33
"Our desires are for the most part mistaken because of our erroneous view of our own interest." pg. 34
"...Perhaps through cu...more
