Is this supposed to be extremely cringe to read? The protagonist sounds like a blue pilled incel who browses reddit, which is impressive given how long ago it was written but doesn't really make for compelling reading
it's the simp version of the 4channer later developed in notes from underground
>>23627468>Translation >Pleb opinion Redi ad Redditum
>>23627468You need to remember that the comfortable 21st-century American context that reddit represents is very different to the snowy streets of 19th-century St Petersburg. What are now just stereotypes and empty platitudes once had a vital force behind them - they meant something quite different. You need to feel the constriction and claustrophobia of official 19th-century culture, how inadequate the popular realist novel was to the emotional life of actual, living, suffering people, and how difficult it must to have been to invent a whole new voice and uncover an unmapped and subterranean world of feeling.
This story is literally me e-dating girls that live in a different state.
>>23627912lol
>>23627468Watch the visconti adaptation. It works better in screen imo
>>23627476how is he a simp exactly?
You know, there are better ways to get what you want than this.
>>23628624like?
>>23627965I watch anything Mastroianni is in, even A Slightly Pregnant Man. He even made that crud into kino.
>>23627468Is this about coke?
>>23627965>>23629306Watch the Robert Bresson adaptation too, or even instead.
>>23627517interesting point
>There is a completely free 1960 adaptation on youtubeIs it worth watching?
>>23627468The introduction of the book I had read that the guy was actually ironic and spiteful towards the woman, and she replied with the same subtlety
>>23629587does the text support that somehow though? it all sounds very earnest to me
