#20 – The Underground Spirit
The Martyr Made Podcast
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The Egoism of Suffering
The author, richard eliot freedman, wrote a theme of the book has to do with the egoism of suffering. In his early novels, dostoyevsky just whitewashes all of this out of the picture. The character s hurt and betray one another, or encourage the others to hurt and betray them. And they bathe in a sense of martyrdom and magnanimous self sacrifice while wielding their forgiveness as a moral cudgel. There are scenes which recall dostoyevsky crawling back to his wife after being broken on the roulette wheel.
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