book is The Butcherbird Stories. One of four books that changed the author, as shared at the Sydney Morning Herald:NOTES FROM UNDERGROUNDRead about the other books Patrić tagged.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was my Brando. "I am a sick man … I am a wicked man." I heard the opening lines from Notes From Underground in the Apocalypse Now whisper of General Kurtz. Brando didn't seem to be merely playing a half-mad genius; and neither did Dostoevsky. I'd found an author purely driven by truth and reality, no matter the character or story. The Russian master's voice emerged from the pages, raw and manifest – absolutely authentic.
--Marshal Zeringue
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