Notes from Underground
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Alan Turton
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.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 read by Alan Turton, with audio engineering by Raconteurs Audio. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
©1993 Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Recorded by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLCThe reward comes in Part 2. The dinner party episode alone is worth the whole book, absurd, vivid, excruciating, and somehow very funny. I had an exact mental picture of it that matched what I remembered from reading it years ago. Dostoevsky puts you inside social humiliation so precisely it's almost uncomfortable to witness.
The Liza section is harder to follow but worth re-listening to. A man who cannot accept genuine human connection because it would require him to be real. He attacks the one person who responds to him honestly, and then rationalises it as doing her a favour.
The last two chapters are the most devastating. The Underground Man turns on himself completely, calls himself an antihero unworthy of a novel, and then delivers what is essentially Dostoevsky's indictment of an entire generation, people so consumed by theory and self-consciousness that they have forgotten how to actually live. Born from an idea rather than from life. The line that hit hardest: we don't even know where the living actually live.
What makes this book extraordinary is that it was written in 1864 and describes exactly the type of person who would go on to remake Russia by force fifty years later. The man who follows an idea all the way to its conclusion, past the point where everyone else stops out of decency or cowardice, and ends up in the underground.
Having the context of Chernyshevsky, Turgenev, and the whole ideological battle of the 1860s makes this land completely differently. Read Fathers and Sons first and do some research about the times back then and the „Crystal Palace“.
The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation narrated by Alan Turton is the one to get. The authors took particular care to properly translate the book and not correct some apparent mistakes, which were actually Dostoevsky‘s intention. Alan Turton delivers brilliantly.
A victim of his own consciousness
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