Notes From Underground & A Confession by Raymond Briggs

A two-part meditation on isolation, self-contradiction and the search for meaning: the first is a bitter, intensely introspective monologue by an embittered, alienated narrator who dissects his own spite, inertia and perverse need to rebel against social norms while exposing the contradictions of human will and rationality; the second is a stark autobiographical confession that traces a soul’s descent into despair and moral questioning and its anguished pursuit of faith, suffering and the possibility of redemption.