![]() I loved the chapter about toothache (Part One, IV). I think there plenty of people around today just like him, and it's useful to better understand why such people think and act as they do. ![]() The underground man's petty meanness and inflated sense of self-importance are fascinating. ![]() It was the most unusual book I have read in some time, but I'm glad I read it. I like Doyle's books, wanted to get a taste of Dostoevsky without committing to one of his longer novels, so I read this a couple of weeks ago. Today’s underground man is the high-school shooter, the incel, Mohammad Atta, Anders Breivik, the online shamer, the self-hating troll. The third was Notes from the Underground, and he drew similar comparisons to yours: Rob Doyle, an Irish author, wrote a series of articles about his favourite books for the Irish Times in 2019. TLDR: did Dostoyevsky create the first character that could be considered a modern day incel/troll?Įdit: A great comment from /U/polar2019 that put my thoughts better than I articulated Full of vitriolic bile, over estimating their own intelligence and uniqueness, but never actually doing anything. However, did Dostoyevsky create the first incel? The narrator is like 90% of Reddit users lol. It's crazy, those Russians could really write back then. ![]() ![]() I just got about halfway through the book. ![]()
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