Notes from the Underground

You first read this at the age of 15, and you're 25 now. How has it influenced your development?

>>34294827
I had to read that last semester for a class. It's a though-provoking read but honestly comes off pseudo-intelectual reeeeee-ing. Also, the main character is such an asshole that whenever you start to feel bad for the guy, he does something to make you go nevermind.

>>34294827
This is literally /r9k/ the book.

I think at one stage the narrator literally is REEEing at normies in his rant. Oh man I gotta read that book again

>>34294902
That's the point, and it's also the point of Catcher in the Rye and every great novel. Do you want a flawless protagonist? Are you flawless? I know that if I observed my life from an external perspective I'd probably feel sympathy for my loneliness, anger and inability to succeed but I would often be repulsed by how fucking retarded I am quite regularly. It's the beauty of being a human being, and to illustrate an extreme character in a novel who is our own internal torment expressed in an externalized being is a great achievement. Elliot Rodger achieved the same thing but he didn't realize it.

>>34294827
he's not a robot
he gets laid

>>34295051
By a hooker, something everyone here could do.

>>34295134
as soon as someone here sleeps with a hooker they stop being a robot

why is it good other than robot feels

If you related to the character, you didn't read it right and are a pleb.

>>34294827
doesn't ol' fyodo have some preamble to the book like
"wew lad, so glad losers like this guy ain't real yet.........."

>>34295632
No, it's more like, maybe losers like this guy weren't real a couple decades ago but they're becoming inevitable right now.

wasnt a robot, just a drunken retard

>>34294827
Notes From Underground is actually a critique of the themes present in the book. It criticizes nihilism and egoism. It does have a robot vibe to it though.

I've always thought of Kafka as a robot. In basically all his stories the protagonist is alienated and foreign in some way. Guilt is central topic in his work. Metamorphosis is a quick read and in a lot of ways it mirrors the situation many neets face today.

Fyodor was married and still fucked all round him.
He was not a hopeless, pathetic loser, rather he wrote stories about them to amuse other successful people.

>>34295134
it was normal to lose your virginity to a hooker back in the 19th century. even napoleon apparently lost it to one.

>>34294827
read most of doestoeveskys major works. i doubt this is a robot book. i imagine fyodor would find robots to be bitter, and he perceive the likes of r9k to be a hub box to escape from ones insecurities. i wouldent consider myself a "normie" and even i find most people here to be really fucking deluded.

>tfw no bf to tyrannise over me

ive tried hard to get into this book, several times. i always put it down after about 50 pages, out of boredom. just the way its written i guess. very long winded

>>34295925
The first part is purely philosophical desu. The second part is a very nice and easy read. I did love the first part as well