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Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.
In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. This audio edition of Notes from Underground is the only recording of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky’s classic work.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of Notes from Underground is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. This audiobook is skillfully narrated by Peter Batchelor.
This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
©1993 Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (P)2011 Echo Point Books & Media, LLCListeners also enjoyed...
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Notes from Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Daniel Allen
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Notes from Underground is a timeless classic that delves into the depths of the human psyche, challenging listeners to confront their own beliefs and assumptions. It remains a must-listen for those seeking to understand the roots of existentialist thought and the enduring complexities of the human soul.
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Notes from Underground
- By: Natasha Randall - translator, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: D. B. C. Pierre
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. 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 extreme 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.
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The first modern anti-hero?
- By John L. Murphy on 07-14-17
By: Natasha Randall - translator, and others
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Devils
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 28 hrs and 3 mins
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Exiled to four years in Siberia, but hailed by the end of his life as a saint, prophet, and genius, Fyodor Dostoevsky holds an exalted place among the best of the great Russian authors. One of Dostoevsky’s five major novels, Devils follows the travails of a small provincial town beset by a band of modish radicals - and in so doing presents a devastating depiction of life and politics in late 19th-century Imperial Russia.
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Excellent translation and narration
- By L. Kerr on 09-06-13
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Notes from Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R Katz - translator
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Dostoevsky’s Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his “sickness” and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier.
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best translator
- By Jarred Hess on 06-11-24
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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The Idiot
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
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Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin's society feel, an "idiot"? Certainly his return to St. Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaia, youngest of the Epanchin daughters, and on the charismatic but willful Nastasya Filippovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions - with tragic results.
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Moments of surprise.
- By Theo on 05-02-18
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Notes from a Dead House
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.
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FYODORange is the New Black
- By Darwin8u on 07-13-15
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Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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A predecessor to such monumental works as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow an unnamed narrator who is disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives and withdraws into the underground. Notes from the Underground shows Dostoevsky at his best.
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Really good performance
- By Fkrauss on 07-24-12
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Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Notes from the Underground is an 1864 existentialist novella written by the Russian author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The speaker, an unknown yet common type of man, writes in first person about his views on Western philosophy, as well as his stark analysis of his own life. The work is written as the ramblings of this retired government employee who seems to have a very pessimistic yet honest opinion on his own life, as well as the world as seen through his eyes.
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Great book
- By Gambit on 08-30-16
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The Brothers Karamazov
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- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
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Well Worth Your Time
- By Scole on 12-06-24
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
Interesting
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having read this in college, I found it Far funnier now and the translation makes the satirical overly literary humor much more apparent. Feel like I much better understood what the author was working towards. Truly the OG Incel, only book obsessed rather than social networking all day.
wonderful Translation
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good story, meh performance
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I've never read a Dostoyevsky novel before, and tried this one because it is short and I (along with everyone) am interested in existentialism. But I found this disappointing and dull. For starters, it is way too moralistic and preachy. The first part is just a rant by some smart, narcissistic jerk that you are supposed to hate. It is fine to write about these issues, but this is suppossed to be a novel, not some philosophical paper. He needs to incorporate these ideas into a story, not just come straight out and say what he wants to say. In part 2, the characters talks about a few things he did decades ago. It is just normal every day problems, but he explains his thoughts as they are happening, which is suppossed to be dark. This technically is better than the first part in that stuff a actually happens, but again, it is telling instead of showing.
The concept is really good, but it barely even qualifies as a work of fiction for half, then is so boring.
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Difficult to Follow
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