Notes from the Underground

About this film

LibriVox recording of Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Read by Librivox volunteers. 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) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (141MB)

Directors & creators

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Subjects

literature; audiobook; librivox; existentialist; ennui

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