<p>I have to read Crime and Punishment for my Russian Lit class, and I wasn't a fan of Notes from Underground, so idk if Dostoevsky and I are just incompatible</p>
<p>My brother recommended that book to me (he also said to my mother I only read trashy fiction) so I attempted to read it, I didn’t actually read it fully (just kind of skimmed through it). That was back when I was around 11-12 years old. Oh the joy.</p>
<p>At least you admit to it CPA. I loathe the pseudo-intellectuals who develop a raging hard on anytime anyone mentions Notes from Underground.</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s the single most boring book ever, regardless of how much the Underground Man represented.</p>
<p>^^
^I can’t believe the two of you dislike Dostoevsky! Wasn’t the underground man such a fascinating characters? He even reminds me of some of the posters on CC.</p>
<p>I read that book for my AP English class this year. I read it, but I didn’t read the last few chapters. It started to get annoying =/</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment is my favorite work of literature ever. Just thought you should know.</p>
<p>Ugh…I gotta start reading it. What about it, for those of you that love it, do you love?</p>
<p>I love Crime and Punishment. I used it as an example for the SAT essay but unfortunately it didn’t go as well as I had expected.</p>
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<p>First, let me remind you that I’m more a fan of Romantic themes than Realist ones, which brings to my opinions a bias that, as the critic Chiczevsky (sp? He’s a Ukrainian literary scholar) would posit, makes my opinion toward the philosophical basis of the Realist movement one of complete opposition. This is likely not the case for many others. [Litsnobbery=Russian]I was, for example, no more intrigued by Turgenev’s Bazarov than I was brought into the faceless aspects of Arkady, and by the end, I was more hopeful that he could find definition than that Bazarov would be capable of feeling anything. The ending touched me more with the reconciliation of the generations as represented by the marriages of Arkady and Nikolai on the same day, for whatever reason, than in the grave visit of the Bazarovs, although that too was fascinating. The Underground Man, meanwhile, is simply an extension of Bazarov.<br>
My favorite character in all of Russian Literature is Pechorin, from Lermontov’s deeply underrated work A Hero of Our Time. While he too attempts to hide his feelings, much in the vein of Bazarov and the Underground Man, it is clear that he has a human soul, and his journal entries portray someone that is deeply in search of meaning for his life. Pechorin, as described by noted literary and political scholar Alexander Herzen, is, along with Gogol’s famous soulless Chichikov, a predecessor to Turgenev’s Rudin and more complete Bazarov, who, meanwhile, cannot but be an inspiration to the Underground Man, Fathers and Children being the only one of Turgenev’s works (with the possible exception of Phantoms, which Dostoevsky included in his literary magazine) that the author of Notes from Underground was a fan of.
I have no opposition to the Underground Man as a concept. The Realist movement was important for the society of the times. However, the complete lack of human dignity displayed by the character both at that regrettable going away party and in his dealings with Liza later, gave me no sentiment in his favor.[/LitSnobbery]</p>
<p>Also, I hope nobody on CC ever has the misfortune to resemble him</p>
<p>lol, I love literature sooooooo much</p>
<p>my AP lit teacher says that readers give automatic 7 or higher to anyone who mentions Crime and Punishment in their essays…food for thought.</p>
<p>I think Paradise Lost is the same way, and I’m tempted to say it’s a better book, though I haven’t read C&P yet</p>
<p>Whattt. Okay, I know my taste in literature is rather unsophisticated, but we’re reading it in-class right now, and it’s definitely really interesting. First of all, it’s a translation so the language is fairly straight-forward. In that way, it’s more accessible in a sense. Plus, the main character is so amusing, and relatable. IMHO, Byronic heroes are cooler that Romantic ones. Only in Spanish Literature do I ever like anything with Romantic themes though.</p>
<p>Meddo -_- Byronic Heroes are Romantic :b</p>
<p>idk, maybe I’ll change my opinion of Dostoevsky. He can be lulzy at times for sure. Maybe not Gogol lulzy, but still pretty comical when he’s not being depressing. Also, from the 5 pages I’ve read, Rashkolnikov doesn’t seem like the ******bag the Underground Man was.</p>
<p>EDIT: although then again, I’m sure Crime and Punishment is going to be more like “The Overcoat” than “Diary of a Madman”
yeah it will probably be good, I just haven’t liked Dostoevsky so far</p>
<p>oh noes really? there goes my name-dropping of lit terms.</p>
<p>I think I meant Heroes < Antiheroes.</p>
<p>Oh okay haha
Yeah, Eugene Onegin, the aforementioned Pechorin, and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights are typical Byronic heroes, and Byron and Goethe were the most important influences on Romantic literature in Russia, so the Byronic hero is a common theme in Romantic writing.</p>
<p>I think the best formed antiheroes are greater than any hero, however perfectly shaped by the author.</p>
<p>I liked Crime and Punishment, but Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was better.</p>
<p>Eh, I liked Pride and Prejudice a little more than I did Crime & Punishment.</p>
<p>^^ ■■■■■ :b</p>
<p>I love Dostoevsky!</p>
<p>I have developed somewhat of a realistic mindset lately though.</p>