I came across a passage from The Brothers Karamazov (in an Elden Ring lore video lol) that I enjoyed so I have been considering reading it. I’m not particularly great at interpreting literature and I also read a bit slowly, so I wasn’t sure if I would be better off starting with something shorter and simpler that he wrote. The passage in the video, a conversation between Ivan and Alyosha (mostly Ivan recounting stories of the suffering of children) seemed fairly straightforward to me, but I don’t know about the rest of the book.
Also I see there are a number of different English translations available for his works, are any of them particularly good or bad?
its been a long time since i read it but i thought it was mostly about chernyshevsky. i'd like to read What Is To Be Done (the novel not the one by lenin (but also the one by lenin)) but my library had a really shitty copy so i never did it.
all that aside if the underground man does complain about euclid that sounds funny and i might prioritize rereading it