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Indlæser... Notes from Underground / Poor People / The Friend of the Familyaf Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.733Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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Main ideas: extraordinarily rational = frightfully dull. Man has always preferred to act according to individual quirks not to his best rational advantage (re Graham Greene’s ‘The Human Factor”). A direct swipe at the city of St. Petersburg (where Dostoyevsky was living) comes in the final paragraph of Part One —
Snow is falling today, yellow and dingy. It fell yesterday, too, and a few days ago [ . . . ] And so let is be a story à propos for f the falling snow. p28
The city was sometimes then referred to as the city of wet snow; yellow = urine, dingy = poor in intellectual rigor (in his opinion). The fashion for Romanticism had already fallen on the city and more recently Rational Egoism. ( )