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Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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"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 Russian & Soviet World Literature Russia Emotionally Gripping
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this is a book about me, and i suspect you. I've never read anyone that was able to pull so completely my inner workings and articulate them so clearly in all their horrible reality.

Best book.

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Took me a while to get into. If it wasn't read by SR I would probably not finished it. But I eventually got hooked.

Difficult beginning

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Story of my life. Absolutely perfect, made me smile quite a bit, at times I even felt embarrassed as if I was there

Perfect

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I enjoyed listening to this and Stefan Rudnicki did a phenomenal job. 5 stars for Stefan alone!

Pretty funny!

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Maybe as I haven't read in a long time and was looking for recommendations I fell upon the book I found it a hard read, I'm not saying it's a bad book but it was a depressing read and not a book I would seek out,

A classic for other's, I suppose!

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