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What follows is a translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground” that does two things in particular: 1) aims to recreate the energy of the original, 2) happens in the 21st century. The catalyst for its creation was simple — seeing countless out-of-context badly translated quotes from the novella, as well as generally solemn “philosophical” aura around it. The book is, on contrary, a comedy, but archaic translations completely bury its manic, self-contradictory energy, so it becomes hard, almost impossible to see that behind “the wise voice from the 19th century.” So, the idea is to rip it off from that aspect completely and hopefully look at it from a new — if not originally intended — angle. It still does follow the original text faithfully when it comes to wording, syntax, speech cadence, etc. — you can see how little I changed if you know Russian; it is a translation — only with modernised setting and historical detail, so we could also see how the same psychology manif

Posts from Underground PfU I: Into the Underground Posts from Underground: Part I, chapter I vanechka Nov 21, 2025 285 52 53 Share What follows is a translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground” that does two things in particular: 1) aims to recreate the energy of the original, 2) happens in the 21st century. The catalyst for its creation was simple — seeing countless out-of-context badly translated quotes from the novella, as well as generally solemn “philosophical” aura around it. The book is, on contrary, a comedy, but archaic translations completely bury its manic, self-contr

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