Notes from the Underground: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Notes from the Underground, credited to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Read by Librivox volunteers. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Notes from the Underground
• Author credits: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 5:06:29

Catalogue topics

• existentialist
• ennui

Track guide

1. notes_p1_ch_01 — 8:09
2. notes_p1_ch_02 — 8:01
3. notes_p1_ch_03 — 10:02
4. notes_p1_ch_04 — 4:20
5. notes_p1_ch_05 — 6:39
6. notes_p1_ch_06 — 3:25
7. notes_p1_ch_07 — 14:12
8. notes_p1_ch_08 — 12:34
9. notes_p1_ch_09 — 7:35
10. notes_p1_ch_10-11 — 16:21
11. notes_p2_ch_01 — 29:44
12. notes_p2_ch_02 — 10:44
13. notes_p2_ch_03 — 20:48
14. notes_p2_ch_04 — 24:12
15. notes_p2_ch_05 — 12:23
16. notes_p2_ch_06 — 27:16
17. notes_p2_ch_07 — 21:28
18. notes_p2_ch_08 — 30:34
19. notes_p2_ch_09 — 21:08
20. notes_p2_10 — 17:05

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