Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)

Translated by Constance Garnett (1861–1946)

Read by Greg, Randy Phillips, Aaron Andrade and 3 others

5h 6m · 20 chapters

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)

Chapters

1. 1Part 1 Chapter 18 min
2. 2Part 1 Chapter 28 min
3. 3Part 1 Chapter 310 min
4. 4Part 1 Chapter 44 min
5. 5Part 1 Chapter 56 min
6. 6Part 1 Chapter 63 min
7. 7Part 1 Chapter 714 min
8. 8Part 1 Chapter 812 min
9. 9Part 1 Chapter 97 min
10. 10Part 1 Chapter 10-1116 min
11. 11Part 2 Chapter 129 min
12. 12Part 2 Chapter 210 min
13. 13Part 2 Chapter 320 min
14. 14Part 2 Chapter 424 min
15. 15Part 2 Chapter 512 min
16. 16Part 2 Chapter 627 min
17. 17Part 2 Chapter 721 min
18. 18Part 2 Chapter 830 min
19. 19Part 2 Chapter 921 min
20. 20Part 2 Chapter 1017 min

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