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Notes from the Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side.

In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. A dark and politically charged novel, Notes From Underground is Dostoyevsky at his best.

Public Domain (P)2009 Christian Audio Thought-Provoking Political Classics Genre Fiction

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Thought-provoking Narrative • Psychological Depth • Flawless Performance • Complex Protagonist • Compelling Antihero

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This story is an excellent illustration for today of the dangers of living a fake digital person a.

Very appropriate for the digital age

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The underground is where you are when you know where you could turn but don’t want to go in any of those directions.

Paradoxical transcendence has a dark side.

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I’ve not read Dostoevsky before, but he writes plenty here which satiates the hunger to be right or be in a chosen path which befits us, at least.

A useful tool of corrective self-punishment

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Just do it. Then think about it for a very long time. Then hopefully soon, you realize how much smarter Dostoyevsky is than you. Then maybe you start taking your own notes.

Read this book

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One feels obliged to read Dostoevsky, and this is a short and less daunting way to start.

A compelling yet appalling unnamed narrator.

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