Notes From Underground
- 2 Apr 2020
- 9781786899002
- £8.99
- 160 pp
- 129×198mm
- 25 Oct 2012
- 9780857861283
- £7.19
- 160 pp
- 25 Oct 2012
- 9780857868879
- £17.99
- 5 hrs 23 min
In a few words
A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky’s most radical work of fiction. Introduced by DBC Pierre
In a few words
A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky’s most radical work of fiction. Introduced by DBC Pierre
In a few words
A ground-breaking new translation of Dostoyevsky’s most radical work of fiction. The audiobook will be read by DBC Pierre – a true original and an ideal fit
This excellent Canongate Canons edition has an enlightening and entertaining introduction by DBC Pierre . . . Dostoevsky chips away at complex human motivation with persuasive stylistic tools, succeeding in being hilarious and heart-rending in a single sentence (after all, "mankind is a comical construction"), captured in this beautiful translation by Natasha Randall. It's through elegantly excavating the particularities of his era that Dostoevsky strikes upon timeless truths, and with perspicacious analysis of behaviour, tunnels through to hidden depths
Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man . . . is perhaps the greatest reliably unreliable narrator in world fiction
Dostoyevsky is one of the few psychologists from whom I have learned something
An author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul . . . [Notes from Underground is] an awe- and terror-inspiring example of this sympathy
Thomas Mann
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
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‘I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .’
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired 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 Dostoyevsky’s disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.
More about
the book
‘I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .’
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired 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 Dostoyevsky’s disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.
More about
the book
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.
The most unflinching study of self-loathing in the literary canon
Notes From Underground established Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia
Rowan Williams
GuardianNotes from Underground is still a modern book; it still can kick
Dostoyevsky is one of the few psychologists from whom I have learned something
Nietzsche
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
GuardianNotes From Underground transcends art and literature, and its place is among the great mystical revelations of mankind . . . It cannot be recommended to those who are not either sufficiently strong to overcome it or sufficiently innocent to remain unpoisoned. It is a strong poison, which is most safely left untouched
D.s. Mirsky In History Of Russian Literature
one of the most revolutionary and original works of world literature
Notes from Underground established Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia
Rowan Williams
Guardian
