OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
作者：Dostoyevsky, Fyodor/ Katz, Michael R.
出版社：Norton
出版日期：2022.12.16
ISBN：9780393870862
書號：30264328
裝訂：平裝
定價：$341
《地下室手記》是俄國作家杜斯妥耶夫斯基於1864年出版的重要小說，被視為現代文學與存在主義思想的先聲。
書中主角是一位退休公務員，獨居於彼得堡的地下室，自稱“地下室人”。他以第一人稱書寫，語氣激烈、矛盾重重，直面人性的扭曲、理性的荒謬與社會的虛偽。他否定啟蒙理性與進步觀，挑戰人類追求幸福與秩序的慾望，揭露人內心深處對痛苦與自我毀滅的執著。
這本書分為兩部分：第一部分是哲理性獨白，展現“地下室人”對自由意志與人性的不信；第二部分則回溯其主角與他人交往的挫敗經歷，進一步證明他的孤絕與破碎。語言深沉而充滿諷刺，剖析人類心理的複雜與矛盾。
《地下室手記》不僅是對19世紀俄國知識分子的深刻批判，也預示了20世紀存在主義的核心問題：什麼是人？人為什麼要活？一部短小卻震撼心靈的思想小說。
About Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground
“The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts that hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. . . . Men are at the same time villains and saints; their acts are at once beautiful and despicable. . . . It is all the same to him whether you are noble or simple, a tramp or a great lady. Whoever you are, you are the vessel of this perplexed liquid, this cloudy, yeasty, precious stuff, the soul.” ―Virginia Woolf
