Title: Prototype for George Castanza?
Review: I had heard about "Notes from Underground" for years, but only got around to reading it recently. As I read the story, I couldn't help comparing the main character's behavior to that of George Castanza (from Seinfeld)--had George lived in 1850's St Petersburg, that is. The pointless manipulations, emotional immaturity, and stunning combination of bluster and impotence exhibited by the story's anti-hero is fascinating, funny, and (yes) pathetic. Dostoyevsky brilliantly (perhaps unwittingly) created the template for the modern day male neurotic.
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