地下室手记

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作品 · 生命哲学与存在哲学

地下室手记

1864 · 作者：费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基

人宁愿自由，也不愿理性。

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简介

Dostoevsky published this short novel in 1864 in Epoch, the journal he ran with his brother. It has two parts: a monologue in which a retired official of forty rails against reason, science and the idea that people always act in their own interest, and a story from his youth, “Apropos of the Wet Snow”, in which he humiliates himself and others. The target is the rational egoism of Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s novel What Is to Be Done? (1863), with its utopian Crystal Palace. Two times two makes four, the narrator concedes, is an excellent thing – but two times two makes five can be charming too. The text is often read as a forerunner of existentialism.