Notes from the Underground was the book that made me return to the habit of reading after a long time, I had already heard from some acquaintances about the book, usually with a positive response.
It was an amazing read, I really like the way Dostoevsky writes the first part of the book like a monologue of the Underground Man a, I liked the humor of the second part and I also liked his observations about how there are many people in society like the Underground Man and show how timeless this book is, because I'm sure there really must be the underground man archetype to this day , extremely distressed people who suffer intensely and irrationally with their thoughts and supposed rationalities.
What I took from the book was that "there is no rationality without love", the underground man thought that he had a superior consciousness and that he was a fully rational being, but he in reality was not that guy he wanted to appear as, because he wasn't loved in his whole life, his parents abandoned him, he felt isolated at school and in adulthood he grew to be an extremely resentful man, he just leaned that he was this resentful man after finding Liza, because he lied compulsively he didn't care about it because he was a "far superior and conscious being", when Liza showed him the simple and beautiful act of just hugging him instead of debating even though he was saying that it was all a lie and he was playing with her feelings, a simple act that was worth a million words (that part really broke me apart).