“Being human - a real human - even being human with flesh and bones is hard for us. We are ashamed of this - we consider being human a disgrace - we strive to be unique social people. We are stillborn people and have long been not the children of living fathers - we are more and more pleased to have been born that way. We enjoy this. In the very near future, we will somehow find a way to be born from thoughts.” Notes from the Underground, Dostoyevsky's first major work in his own voice, freed from the influence of Gogol, is a novel that heralds the great existential literature in Europe. The book begins with a long, frantic speech by the character, who addresses the reader from a state of mind he calls "underground". Then, a humiliation incident experienced by this moralist-nonconformist-honest person is described. A true masterpiece that has been read for one hundred and fifty years.
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