Dostoevsky Wrote the Prototype for the Modern Loner

This episode of Margin Notes takes on Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is the strange, bitter confession of a man who lives entirely in his own head, convinced he is smarter than everyone and unable to stop ruining his own life. We talk through why the narrator feels so modern, how reason fails him, and what Dostoevsky understood about desire, pride, and the human soul. Margin Notes is a book club from Memoria Press. Margin Notes is a book club podcast from the team behind Classical Et Cetera, where host Paul Schaeffer sits down with three classically educated undergraduates to discuss one great book per episode.