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Notes From Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, DBC Pierre - introduction, Natasha Randall - translator
Narrated by: DBC Pierre
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In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet in Dostoyevsky's most radical and disturbing character, there is the uncomfortable flicker of recognition of the human condition.

When the narrator ventures above ground, he attends a dinner with a group of old school friends. It is here, paralysed by his own social awkwardness, that he carries out extraordinary acts and cements his status as a true and original outsider.

This audio edition is narrated by DBC Pierre whose passion and identification with the book promise a breathtaking new interpretation.

 Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Critic reviews

"Dostoyevsky is one of the few psychologists from whom I have learned something"
"Notes from Underground, with its mood of intellectual irony and alienation, can be seen as the first modern novel... That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work" (Malcolm Bradbury)
"Notes from Underground established Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia" (Rowan Williams)
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