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Notes from the Underground (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
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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Revised edition: Previously published as Notes from the Underground, this edition of Notes from the Underground (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
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- SB
- 26-10-24
2nd part is the story. Skip ahead if you don’t enjoy the opening, the 2nd half is worth it alone.
One of the great proto-INCEL stories. Dostoevsky was a prophet. He saw through the eyes of psychologically disturbed men so brilliantly and painted them so clearly. This and Crime and Punishment are in tune to the idea.
The reviews saying the main character is disagreeable as a fault of the story are media illiterate. That’s the POINT of the story. The book is not endorsing his psychology, it’s exploring it. Please ignore those foolish reviews
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- Lord Emsworth
- 22-08-20
Tedious and disagreeable
Not my cup of tea. The first half is rambling and tedious. Things pick up in the second half however Underground Man, the socially inept, self loathing, thin skinned, bitter, pretentious protagonist is a most disagreeable narrator.
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- Katharine
- 16-05-21
Couldn't Listen
Siminelli's delivery and American intonation jarred and I couldn't listen to this. What a pity!
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