Dostoevsky - Why Men Go Underground 

That made me smile. Dostoyevsky is a genius. Really captures the alienation so many modern men experience

What book are you referring to?

@@ArturoGarzaID Notes from the underground

I had the same experience!!!

Brilliant of the author, though@@tanguero_

Why should you feel that you have to live up to some societal norms? I understand how you feel and share some of your concerns, however I feel no guilt whatsoever. I am simply correct and the prevailing zeitgeist is wrong. I know there are thousands more like me. Take action and live.

If you want to experience a life free from the obsession that comes with the first drink, freedom is possible. I hope you find a solution as well. 👍

If you know the Lord. Ask Him for strength. I was freed from a drug addiction and an awful temper by doing so. Perhaps He will free you as well, friend.

It's ironic, you feel guilt over your alcoholism, and that guilt subdues you. The guilt of your subjugation drives you to further drink. May God help you! Try to find a way to cope with your insufficiency and find forgiveness to escape your cycles of guilt. Can't we find freedom by being enslaved to Christ?

Stop trying to fix yourself. You can't fix that which is not broken. You will fail. Accept and love yourself unconditionally. The rest of the dominos will fall once you can do that.

Same with me! 😊 Katz graciously gave me some of his time and answered my questions, too. He's working on The Idiot now. I hope his translations of all Dostoevsky's major works (i.e. The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Devils, and hopefully someday soon The Idiot) replace Pevear and Volokhonsky as the academic and popular standard. Katz is a far better translator than P&V, his translations are more faithful to the underlying text as well as more readable, with lively flow, really getting to the heart of Dostoevsky. The only other translators who are as good as Katz are Oliver Ready if one prefers British English (Katz is American), but Ready only has only translated Crime and Punishment; Ignat Avsey but he's more idiomatic than Katz which tends to skew away from the Russian text, and Avsey only did The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, I believe; and perhaps Constance Garnett but she's quite dated since she was published over a century ago, though there have been beautiful revisions of her work, such as Susan McReynolds's The Brothers Karamazov, which are worth reading.

"Busily engaged in heaping up our own funeral pyre" from another great thinker

That’s quite literally progression. Not everyone is in favor of current traditions. The only issue now is the people okay with the status quo don’t want to change nor adapt.

@@eyes9596it’s quite literally the opposite. It’s not progression , it’s rotting

I try to add subtitles to all my videos but sometimes too busy lol

You’re welcome.

Glad you enjoyed it!

You weren’t wrong in your initial observations but as with everything else in life there is much more to it

Consciousness is not a disease. Awareness and free will are useful and necessary for living a life. Desire and action are not evil. We are not inherently sinful. We are irrational and a place amongst many where interdimrnsionality, convergence, eternity and infinity meet. Proper proportionality is key. And some sort of steadfast honesty is about the best one may seek as an anchor. Many go to extremes, sometimes merely for succinctness.

Wow, thanks!

I really appreciate your comment. I love Russian literature, mainly 19th century writers.

Lenin and the Communist overthrew the Tsar and murdered his family along with millions of innocent people. Rewriting history doesn't change what happened. The communist killed tens of millions of people during their oppressive reign.

I appreciate that!

Where is my sandwich??? I’ve been asking for a while now. You and I watch the same type of subject matter.

That’s so nice of you. It means a lot.

I feel exactly the same way. Thank you for saying this so beautifully.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you.

@@Fiction_Beast I dunno if you'll ever read this, the mistake Dostoevsky makes is so obvious that is almost childish. The feeling of loneliness, resentfulness and defeat is a product of social incomprehension, in a context where he believes in Western rationality defended by authors nobody reads in feudal Russia and their ideas are taken as a joke. His proposition to somehow embrace irrationality, i.e. tradition and religion can also be dangerous, that's basically post-Communism Russia, but the underlying culture didn't change that much anyway, and I mean, during the centuries.

A neat NEET

Thank you!

It was your comment that made me do it again.

@@Fiction_Beast really? Glad to hear I could offer some advice much love my guy ❤️🙏

Wonderful!

Thanks I'll check it out

Thanks for the idea! I might make a video explaining my process.

Thank you! I get more viewers from India lately. Maybe Dostoevsky is getting popular there.

You really think so? Appreciate it.

@@Fiction_Beast i do man, it's super professional and educational, keep it up!

What did you think about it?

@@Fiction_Beast I liked it. It was my second Dostoevsky novel I’ve read, first one being The Idiot. Both were great and I’m looking forward to reading Brothers Karamazov next (I have to keep skipping parts where you mention it in your videos not to spoil it for myself :) ). Thank you for these literature videos!

You’re welcome.

Yes. I am russian and I am agree

If you wanna understand what the current American Zeitgeist is read "War is a Racket".

@@ozymandiasultor9480 Thanks for the recommendation.

@@maxim.j22 It also reflects very well the mind of a lot of people living in Eastern Germany.

What do you mean by musjid al shaitan, you interest me

You do sound Spanish haha so I would guess Spain or somewhere in South America

I’m trying to be a novelists so making videos is an enjoyable distraction from the actual task of writing a novel. I’m no student and I have never studied literature at university. I guess my take on literature is a bit raw and half cooked.

@@Fiction_Beast Ohhh ok gotcha. I was gonna say you sound like a grad student just by how much in depth you go in your videos and how well you describe the concepts.

Cheers!

You think so? Thank you so much.

Narkiz Bunin-Officer with a dog.

@@-Llama_95 thanks!

Thank you so much 😀

Good point but they were quick to take over tho

Well I'll be lol, they don't teach us that.

I'd say if you relate to the underground man read Fernando Pessoa book of disquiet

perhaps non-rational is a better term becuause irrational has negative connotation.

I'm more of a prose reader, but a good suggestion.

​@@Fiction_Beastyou are missing out then. You should read Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

That’s a great suggestion. I picked it for my top ten Russia novels.

Just the Russian part at the beginning?

🌻

I wish I could understand.

“Good work, and great novel” In Arabic.

I will chek him out

Watch my video on Don Quixote vs Hamlet

yes, the previous upload had some issues so i had to delete it

Coming soon

@@Fiction_Beast looking forward to it! I was introduced to him by my beloved Bukowski

In my language, we write Я as Ја. And I agree, in Russian, it has a specific rhythm that is untranslatable in English.

でしょう？

Да! Местоимение "Я" в разных частях предложения и его отсутствие тоже. Всегда в этом плане немного сожалею о том, что я не являюсь носителем сразу языков 5 и не могу читать книги английских, японских, французских, немецких авторов в оригинале 😅

@@ozymandiasultor9480 you are Slovenian? Serbian?

@@dinka-li я знаю неплохо французский и начал изучать английский, это не так и сложно, просто нужно много смотреть Ютуб