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Notes from Underground

Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Summary

"I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man", a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literature.

In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky penned the darkly fascinating Notes from Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes - moral, religious, political, and social - that dominated Dostoevsky’s later works.

Those who are familiar with his works will immediately recognize the novel's richly complex philosophical, political, and psychological themes; those who are not will find the best introduction to Dostoevsky's grander masterpieces.

Public Domain (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing Classics World Literature Russia
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The only thing irritating is the voice of the speaker. The rest is pure gold.

Master piece.

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Great voice performance by the narrator, but the novella’s unconventional structure makes it difficult to follow.

Great voice performance

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Go ahead and spend your credit on this. you won't regret it. performance was good but story Holy mother of God.

oh my God

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The protagonist of the story initially caused me to strongly dislike him - he seemed arrogant in what we would now term an “incel” and social outcast. However, as his character is revealed more fully, I felt keenly his frustration at his social position and inability to fit in; further, his fantasies and desperation garnered my sympathy.
The narration was perfectly suited to the text - every emotion expressed with raw honesty - and vividly added to the experience in a way that a straight reading of the text would lack.

Heartbreaking and poetic

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