Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R Katz - translator

Narrated by: Ken Kliban

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. Scornful of others and of himself, he recounts a party he attended at which, unwelcome, he got drunk and acted scandalously, the visit to a brothel that ensued, and the chance arrival there of love—love which, of course, by his very nature he cannot accept, and so debases. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest, most influential prose writers of all time.

Public Domain (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

best translator

I've read at least 6 of the translators for dostoevsky including this one in 3 versions and. katz is the best in my opinion. His philosphy of translation and deep understanding of Dostoevsky esp with insights from the unstoppable biographer Joseph Frank make him my favorite.