Notes From the Underground: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Notes From the Underground, credited to Fyodor Dostoevsky, 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 Bob Neufeld Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Àpropos of the Wet Snow," and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Notes From the Underground
• Author credits: Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 5:04:51

Catalogue topics

• dostoevsky
• fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Underground - Part 1 — 44:33
2. 02 - Underground - Part 2 — 48:32
3. 03 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 1 — 45:12
4. 04 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 2 — 1:02:25
5. 05 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 3 — 44:46
6. 06 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 4 — 59:27

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