Audiobooks Published 1800 -1900 Notes from the Underground Part 2 Chapter 5

Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor DOSTOYEVSKY (1821 - 1881)

Part 2 Chapter 5

Notes from the Underground

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)

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