20 episodes

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if published now (a century and a half later) Notes would be considered an avant-garde post-modernist triumph. In some ways this is a heavy text, laden with conversational philosophizing; but the vividness of the narrator make it a wonderful read, and funny.
(Review by Hugh McGuire)

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881‪)‬ LibriVox

    • Arts

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if published now (a century and a half later) Notes would be considered an avant-garde post-modernist triumph. In some ways this is a heavy text, laden with conversational philosophizing; but the vividness of the narrator make it a wonderful read, and funny.
(Review by Hugh McGuire)

    Part 1 Chapter 1

    Part 1 Chapter 1

    • 8 min
    Part 1 Chapter 2

    Part 1 Chapter 2

    • 8 min
    Part 1 Chapter 3

    Part 1 Chapter 3

    • 10 min
    Part 1 Chapter 4

    Part 1 Chapter 4

    • 4 min
    Part 1 Chapter 5

    Part 1 Chapter 5

    • 6 min
    Part 1 Chapter 6

    Part 1 Chapter 6

    • 3 min

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