The book opens with a very long monologue, the unnamed narrator goes on and on about his opinions on life and people and his miserable situation. He thinks that man, out of a desire to exercise his free will, intentionally acts against his own interest and the dictates of logic, and how in his opinion, consciousness is a disease. Throughout, the narrator kind of argues with the reader and addresses him directly, imagining what he might say in response to him. He is full of self loathing and believes that humans are innately bad, but he also thinks himself superior to others and holds lots of one-sided grudges against other people. The book follows his self destructive behavior that results from these grudges. Even though the writing is dense and full of the main character's philosophy, about which he writes pages long paragraphs, it is phenomenal. The psychological exploration is just absolutely brilliant and I would highly recommend this.