Notes from Underground
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by George Guidall
4.5/5
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. Between 1838 and 1843 he studied at the St Petersburg Engineering Academy. His first work of fiction was the epistolary novel Poor Folk (1846), which met with a generally favourable response. However, his immediately subsequent works were less enthusiastically received. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested as a member of the socialist Petrashevsky circle, and subjected to a mock execution. He suffered four years in a Siberian penal settlement and then another four years of enforced military service. He returned to writing in the late 1850s and travelled abroad in the 1860s. It was during the last twenty years of his life that he wrote the iconic works, such as Notes from the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), which were to form the basis of his formidable reputation. He died in 1881.
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Reviews for Notes from Underground
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dark Alan Partridge. Compare to his "We need to talk about Alan". Both ramble pointlessly through perceived grievances. It would write well if the phrase "needless to say, I had the last laugh" were put in.
Alanztoyevksy would write: "I was circling the Petersburg arterial junction adjoining the A12 on my Honda civic, recently renovated despite my frequent bouts of melancholy, when I noticed a superb Ford Fiesta. My mind sought to blight that car then and there as I recalled its repairman had slighted me twelve years ago in a cafe owned by a Belarusian who..." And so on.
The best bit is the first part of chapter 1. The rest is essentially "I know I'm a real cunt".2 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A masterpiece. And unlike the major works this one was the perfect length.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man lost in enlightening himself with nihilism, there is no stupid Russian romantic.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is absolutely a work of genius. Dostoevsky has spent far too much time wandering around in my mind taking notes. I felt totally naked and found out throughout the book. Also, a lot of credit should go to the reader who is absolutely fantastic for this book.
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