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Notes From Underground
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrator
- DBC Pierre
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 25 October 2012
- Run Time
- 5 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
When the narrator ventures above ground, he attends a dinner with a group of old school friends. It is here, paralysed by his own social awkwardness, that he carries out extraordinary acts and cements his status as a true and original outsider.
This audio edition is narrated by DBC Pierre whose passion and identification with the book promise a breathtaking new interpretation.
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Details
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrator
- DBC Pierre
- Duration
- 5 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 October 2012
- ISBN
- 9780857868879
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet in Dostoyevsky's most radical and disturbing character, there is the uncomfortable flicker of recognition of the human condition.When the narrator ventures above ground, he attends a dinner with a group of old school friends. It is here, paralysed by his own social awkwardness, that he carries out extraordinary acts and cements his status as a true and original outsider.This audio edition is narrated by DBC Pierre whose passion and identification with the book promise a breathtaking new interpretation.
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