Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Natasha Randall
'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too...'In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky's disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.
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“Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski