I’ve finished reading Part 1 in which Dostoyevsky just
rambles on and on and I was surprised that in the last chapter of this part he
talked about how he did not write any of this for anyone to read. I understood
though that that was precisely what he was leading up to with all his rambling.
He was talking the whole time, just to let us know in the end that man keeps
many things bottled up and that writing the ideas down on paper are a way to
let those ideas be free and to rid them from the conscious mind. So the whole
time, he himself was letting go of all of these ideas and doubts and things
that bothered him. I also realized (or I think I did) why the book is called
Notes from the Underground. It is because he sets himself up as a character
that lives underground and has nothing to do but look at humans and judge their
behaviors and choices and wonder why they do what they do. I am excited to read
what comes next but I really hope it is easier to read.
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