NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I was looking around Librivox one day and discovered this on there. Since I had the impression that Dostoevsky is very good and I hadn’t yet read anything by him, I decided that this would be a good book to get. Now, this is described as the world’s first existentialist novel. What precisely that means, or even what this book is about, I have yet to figure out. I’m told a lot of really smart people say that it means something (although sometimes people don’t say what they thought it means and sometimes even these opinions are invented, such as Nietzsche’s “cried truth from the blood” statement), so I’ll leave that option open. All in all, it read like a bunch of pointless rambling and I think I’ll just assume that Dostoevsky’s other works are more substantive.