Did Dostoevsky hold any of the opinions written about in Notes

>>9802620
No. it's a satirical character examination, not a self insert. maybe he did in his youth, maybe not, but the Underground Man was an exploration of the young nihilist character in Crime and Punishment.
It's a critique of the young self-absorbed nihilist "tortured soul" loner that he was seeing a lot of in Russia that time. Turgenev as well, with Fathers and Sons.
You can't fully understand Notes without reading Crime and Punishment

>>9802706
Notes From The Underground is about communism and utopia though? It was scrapped from another book he was writing explicitly against communism, and the character is to show that, while the man appears intelligent and structured, he often acts completely against his own self interest.

>>9802802
It seemed to me that the book was more about how consciousness leads to twisted lines of thinking that makes people act Creul and that people try hard to create structures to live perfectly and happy but the truth is we long ago abandoned true happiness by being corrupted by intelligence and embracing structures for enjoyment that we don't need. Basically the ending of the book says it all treat people how you want to be treated like karma , desu that whole dream sounded like a shroom trip, that's what I interrupted the book as, it really sounded like he was having a shroom trip the way he fell into it like he never was aware of falling asleep and then not being able to describe why truths were revealed to him and how etc and how everything was happy especially. Anyone else get that ??

>>9802821
If I had a pill which could make me fall asleep forever in an indestructible little box for eternity, I'd take it.

>>9802827
You would run out of dreams due to a lack of stimulus that people get in real life it would basically be like death after a while and for eternity I would rather gamble with actual death and see what's on the other side, are dreams really that worth

>>9802839
I do not know