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Title details for Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Available

Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bob Neufeld
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Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground Man, who represents the voice of his generation. An emotional, paranoid knot of contradictions, the spiteful narrator is also desperate to join a society he loathes, if only to prove his superiority to it. Exploring themes of free will versus determinism, Dostoyevsky's existential exploration was written to challenge increasingly popular Western egoist philosophies. In the Underground Man, he found the embodiment of the antihero, whose behavior—like all human behavior—defies rationalization.

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    November 22, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9789895623020
      • File size: 146343 KB
      • Duration: 05:04:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This mid-career novel (1864) by the Russian master is said to have prefigured the development of existentialist literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book's first-person narrative, delivered here by Simon Vance, tells a story of bitterness, isolation, and alienation from society. The British-born Vance brings an effective mix of insouciance and intensity to the voice of the unnamed main character, whose ruminations and reminiscences about past run-ins--with a soldier, a prostitute, and old schoolmates--spiral into a bleak, cynical indictment of modern society and his own life. Vance is at the top of his game, delivering a treatment that is well matched to the interior churnings of the mind of the protagonist. M.G. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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