saturday

Wendell Pfeffer

I would have expected Notes from Underground to unravel and become more understandable as I read further into the book, but the book actually continues to become more difficult to understand. I continue have to re read some paragraphs 3 times in order to have some comprehension on what he is saying. Apart from the difficulty of the book Fyodor has some really interesting points especially when he characterizes a man of intelligence and good consciousness and those with acute consciousness. Fyodor states over and over that he wants to become a man of action (acute consciousness) and not a man of intelligence because those men that have little consciousness take action and are successful while people like him are lazy. Another point to be made about this is his idea of revenge. Those men with acute consciousness take vengeance rapidly because what they think they are doing is for the good of society – crime and punishment. While people with good consciousness and intelligence will be trapped and think about the events that will happen during or after if they decide to take vengeance in which the will never do. He wants to be a man of action, which is strange though because even though he wants to become that type of person he is trash talking them at the same time. For example he says that this type of person is a mouse. I believe he does this to make himself feel better, which is not a surprise because he states it earlier in the book.

            I really cannot wait to finish the first half of the book because I am tired of having to listen to his inner thoughts.