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  • ✍️►NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks ►to Skip intro: Author's Note starts @00:20 -- Ch. I starts @1:24 -- Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Àpropos of the Wet Snow," and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator.
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    ⏱️Chapters⤵️
    start 00:00:00
    ► Author's Note: 00:00:20
    ► PART I Underground
    Underground I 1:24
    II 9:45
    III 18:34
    IV 29:37
    V 33:55
    VI 40:55
    VII 44:47
    VIII 59:13
    IX 1:12:35
    X 1:20:25
    XI 1:24:26
    ► PART II À Propos of the Wet Snow
    À Propos of the Wet Snow I 1:34:02
    II 2:06:23
    III 2:18:34
    IV 2:43:01
    V 3:08:21
    VI 3:20:57
    VII 3:46:30
    VIII 4:05:46
    IX 4:32:24
    X 4:51:02
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  • @AdamMCrawford
    @AdamMCrawford 3 роки тому +419

    "To live longer than 40 years is..bad manners" lol

    • @zachprater229
      @zachprater229 3 роки тому +14

      Literally the best quote

    • @cheeseandonions9558
      @cheeseandonions9558 3 роки тому +3

      @@zachprater229 Mishima repeated the same sentiment almost 100 years later when he wrote that "A man cannot die a beautiful death once he turns 45"

    • @prophet1388
      @prophet1388 2 роки тому +7

      @@cheeseandonions9558 Mishima has a bad manner.

    • @Mazurka1001
      @Mazurka1001 2 роки тому +2

      ...lol how everything changes. today they say 60 is the new 4o etc etc etc. lol

    • @skeptic010
      @skeptic010 2 роки тому +6

      UPON MY WORD Gentlemen!

  • @lkd982
    @lkd982 Рік тому +228

    "At that time I was only 24, my life was gloomy, ill-regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage". Brilliant

    • @brynawaldman5790
      @brynawaldman5790 Рік тому +6

      The writing is brilliant? I agree. The meaning of the sentence? "Savages;" hunting gatherers; live in strong, small communities (FWIW), and aren't "gloomy" unless their societies were destroyed by colonialism. They weren't "ill-regulated.". I think Doesteyevsky was a brilliant author, but he was also burdened by many of the prejudices of his time & place.

    • @lkd982
      @lkd982 Рік тому +20

      ​@@brynawaldman5790 your objection only reveals tedious ubiquity of the mediocre mind

    • @user-03-gsa3
      @user-03-gsa3 Рік тому +5

      @@brynawaldman5790 generally happiness in hunter gatherer societies is based on food. the best kind of food usually being meat. the happiest day in a young man's life is his biggest hunt.
      if you're a hunter gatherer and you can't provide food for your tribe for the day you're unhappy, if that happens continually you'll be "gloomy" and hungry. also, he didnt apply those previous qualities to a savage, only "solitary".
      you want to fit some idea here but I dont think it is that accurate. it's important to note this wasn't written in English. there are multiple meanings to the word "savage" both in english and in russian. when he used this word originally im assuming he was probably thinking more of a person surviving in a harsh cold climate inside of a cabin for a very long time.

    • @Dawg93
      @Dawg93 11 місяців тому +1

      @@brynawaldman5790 yes, gloom and disregulation can only come about from colonialism..... . . . .

    • @brynawaldman5790
      @brynawaldman5790 11 місяців тому

      @@user-03-gsa3 Hunting gatherers were gender equal, accepting of LBGT & of what we call "mental illness," and had little economic disparity between those in power & those at the bottom. The tribe takes care of the tribe. There is more to happiness than food. The average work day of the African Bushman was an hour & a half. The average work week of the Tlingits of the west coast was 15 hours. That left lots of time to sing songs & play with babies.

  • @chrisconnor8086
    @chrisconnor8086 5 років тому +908

    this book made me feel that everything i thought I knew about modernity and the late 1800s was a lie. That these people were just like us. It was terrifying and liberating at the same time.

    • @seanod7157
      @seanod7157 4 роки тому +34

      He does seem like a post 1918 twentieth century man. I was surprised too.

    • @gingercunt3561
      @gingercunt3561 3 роки тому +3

      Sean O'D what would the difference be between a post and pre 1918 man ?

    • @user-rb1ko9oz9g
      @user-rb1ko9oz9g 3 роки тому +9

      I think Dostoevsky is an exceptional man.

    • @brettsullivan8217
      @brettsullivan8217 3 роки тому +1

      @Carter Swinton Far from a simple game. You should re-examine it.

    • @kell_checks_in
      @kell_checks_in 3 роки тому +5

      The best of times... The worse of times..?

  • @TheBaconlaser
    @TheBaconlaser 7 років тому +792

    This narrator is perfect for Dostoyevsky.

    • @westerling8436
      @westerling8436 5 років тому +17

      my inner voice does a decent job too while reading

    • @BBond88
      @BBond88 5 років тому +5

      Agreed entirely I’m really enjoying his presentation

    • @tommyjohnson7280
      @tommyjohnson7280 4 роки тому +4

      yes i love this guy it feels firsthand ernest and not read rote

    • @TheRealSlobo
      @TheRealSlobo 4 роки тому +3

      BY FARRRRRRRRRRRRRR

    • @user-gq6dg7ee6d
      @user-gq6dg7ee6d 4 роки тому +5

      The voice sounds dread xD
      Like the ultimate speech giving troll in a town hall, I love it.

  • @Interwurlitzer
    @Interwurlitzer 6 років тому +96

    “Can a man of perception respect himself at all?”

    • @brendantannam499
      @brendantannam499 6 років тому +7

      How the hell did Dostoevsky realise that trying too hard is counter-productive? Maybe that's why Christianity cannot work.

    • @zztopz7090
      @zztopz7090 4 роки тому +10

      @@brendantannam499 Dostoevsky was Christian lol.

    • @brendantannam499
      @brendantannam499 4 роки тому +4

      @@zztopz7090 I know. Now have you anything worthwhile to say? - lol.

  • @sofieblicher9308
    @sofieblicher9308 6 місяців тому +26

    I dont mind that society is stuck in a daydream, i mind that i woke up from it.
    I think its best to be clueless, i dont think its healthy to realize the true pontlesness of society and life.
    I dont wanna wake anyone, but at the same time i need someone to talk to.

    • @thenew4559
      @thenew4559 3 місяці тому +2

      Maybe become like Dostoevsky and adopt religion, or some form of spirituality. Society may be pointless, but life is not.

    • @SaiSunday
      @SaiSunday 2 місяці тому

      I'm not sure it's appropriate to say you woke up if you see it all as meaningless. I don't believe that is enlightenment, I believe it is self sabotage. Dig further.

  • @billyb6001
    @billyb6001 6 років тому +511

    I want to drink cheap tea and eat dry bread with this guy.

    • @westerling8436
      @westerling8436 5 років тому +20

      I doubt that

    • @consciousmotivationsoldcha3916
      @consciousmotivationsoldcha3916 4 роки тому +12

      the tea should have no taste at all too

    • @caleb.39
      @caleb.39 4 роки тому +4

      accompanied by a dozen husks

    • @marp00n
      @marp00n 3 роки тому +1

      Kevin Van Vooren coolest dude in the comments 100%

    • @marp00n
      @marp00n 3 роки тому +1

      @@westerling8436 ur still the coolest

  • @sudhirpatel7620
    @sudhirpatel7620 5 років тому +558

    Nietzsche said. "Dostyvesky, the only psychologist, by the way, from whom I had anything to learn."

    • @walbattat
      @walbattat 5 років тому +2

      Lol nice

    • @andrewyang1446
      @andrewyang1446 4 роки тому +5

      AlexFromHowest May I ask why?

    • @82149
      @82149 4 роки тому

      Very good, Patel!

    • @eunicedavenport9173
      @eunicedavenport9173 4 роки тому +19

      Nietzache. Predicted the 20th century would be the bloodiest century than any other. It spilled more blood than all the others put together. The one thing he was right about about. 👻 👻 👻 💀 💀 💀. Hello Hitler Stalin, Mao, Tojo, Lenin. North Korea. Vietnam Cambodia Africa

    • @eunicedavenport9173
      @eunicedavenport9173 4 роки тому

      Andrew Yang Nietzsche s philosophy. See below what it did. ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

  • @anasamin8227
    @anasamin8227 3 роки тому +823

    this is not a book, this is a very harsh diss track to all of us

  • @josephhernandez9531
    @josephhernandez9531 3 роки тому +36

    “I have merely taken to an extreme in my life what you have never dared to take even halfway.”

  • @user-mh2cc4jf3f
    @user-mh2cc4jf3f 4 роки тому +232

    I am called a psychologist: it is not true, I am only a realist in the highest sense, that is, I represent all the depths of the human soul."( F. M. Dostoevsky.)

  • @REDPOWERable
    @REDPOWERable 2 роки тому +573

    When you are russian and realise that you are listening Dostoevsky in English at 3 a.m.

    • @REDPOWERable
      @REDPOWERable Рік тому +21

      @cat on a hot tin roof Always true. Just to give you a clue, they translated “Hangover”(the movie) into “Stag-party in Vegas” for better adaptation for russian public. We have a word for hangover in russian, most obliviously, but no, they did it anyway. So yeah, various adaptations that are nothing but adaptations.

    • @Reesee000
      @Reesee000 Рік тому +3

      Hah

    • @cahlendavidson2921
      @cahlendavidson2921 Рік тому +34

      Watch the video at 1.5x speed. Then you'll be "rushin". 🙄

    • @lesleybarnard6788
      @lesleybarnard6788 Рік тому +4

      Lmao gold

    • @tbrew3234
      @tbrew3234 Рік тому +21

      When you’re not Russian and listening to this at 3am 👁👄👁

  • @tigerlilygirlxoo
    @tigerlilygirlxoo 5 років тому +251

    This book will teach you what it means to be honest with yourself

    • @ThePainterr
      @ThePainterr 5 років тому +20

      Being honest about the behaviour behind the behaviour...revealing the inner person we hide from others.....he gives voice what we all think of.....so agreed!

    • @fredrikolsson7568
      @fredrikolsson7568 4 роки тому +17

      Can you truly be honest with yourself though? There always seems to be something hiding in the periphery of your mind. I think this uncertainty is something we have to learn to live with, just as we can never precisely determine where an electron is at any given moment.

    • @boatwreks
      @boatwreks 4 роки тому +8

      The thing is that Dostoyevsky was not the narrator. He was just exploring people like that. If u don’t know people like that or can understand how a person could b like that in modern times than it would sound like jibberish to you yes.

    • @TheJacklikesvideos
      @TheJacklikesvideos 2 роки тому +1

      @Tony his thoughts and feelings can include empathy. He can craft a fiction from things which he relates distantly by focusing on them closely.

    • @ImGR888
      @ImGR888 2 роки тому +1

      True, I’ve come to accept that “maybe” I’m just spiteful. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to change. The world deserves it

  • @liltick102
    @liltick102 2 роки тому +74

    Every single time he retracts to a nod, catching the reader laughing, or pausing to think to themselves - the effectiveness of that makes this entire novel such a insanely well done conversation with the reader.
    One of my favourite books ever written.

  • @okipullup6886
    @okipullup6886 Рік тому +39

    holy shit the part where they're at dinner is one of the most harrowing and real things I've ever heard in a book. Dostoevsky was a master at capturing emotion and reason and then putting them in conflict with each other as they almost always are. I've never felt second hand embarrassment from a character in a book and when he describes the humiliating scenes in which the underground man tries desperately to gain favor and sympathy with his "enemies" makes me just want to give the poor dude a hug.

  • @lkd982
    @lkd982 Рік тому +21

    "Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence ,,, I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too." Brilliant

  • @alisafa2858
    @alisafa2858 3 роки тому +221

    Why would someone dislike such a free audio book? We are so lucky to get such free content. Those dislikers really have no manners at all!

    • @jennebaram9881
      @jennebaram9881 3 роки тому

      Because the narrator is an asshole.

    • @doom1894
      @doom1894 3 роки тому +1

      @@jennebaram9881 cry, loser

    • @jennebaram9881
      @jennebaram9881 3 роки тому +1

      @@doom1894 I meant the fictional narrator

    • @doom1894
      @doom1894 2 роки тому

      @@jennebaram9881 so what you mean the author not the narrator.
      also you got be such a bitch to dislike a book because a fictional character is meant

    • @jennebaram9881
      @jennebaram9881 2 роки тому

      @@doom1894 You meant "mean." Yes, as I stated previously and clearly, I meant the narrator, not the author. The author and the narrator are two different things. The narrator is a fictional voice-- the author is a real human being. With that out of the way, I can see why you'd like it.You and the narrator seem to have a lot in common. Cheers.

  • @sirsplintfastthepungent1373
    @sirsplintfastthepungent1373 5 років тому +394

    Welp, that was five solid hours of personal attacks.

    • @knuthamsun7887
      @knuthamsun7887 4 роки тому +10

      you sound like a pussy

    • @knuthamsun7887
      @knuthamsun7887 4 роки тому +10

      well said, now admit and be aware that you sound like a pussy as well!

    • @sirsplintfastthepungent1373
      @sirsplintfastthepungent1373 4 роки тому +22

      @@knuthamsun7887 ouch, my feelings.

    • @LiLoTech
      @LiLoTech 4 роки тому +3

      Yet, you listened all the way through.

    • @knuthamsun7887
      @knuthamsun7887 4 роки тому +1

      @@sirsplintfastthepungent1373 haha...you have feelings. Just proving my point bro!

  • @carloseduardoaguiar8712
    @carloseduardoaguiar8712 2 роки тому +328

    Part 1
    I 1:24
    II 9:45
    III 18:36
    IV 29:37
    V 33:55
    VI 40:58
    VII 44:47
    VIII 59:14
    IX 1:12:35
    X 1:20:25
    XI 1:24:26
    Part 2
    I 1:34:02
    II 2:06:23
    III 2:18:34
    IV 2:43:04
    V 3:08:21
    VI 3:20:56
    VII 3:46:30
    VIII 4:05:46
    IX 4:32:24
    X 4:51:02

  • @blackfeatherstill348
    @blackfeatherstill348 2 роки тому +16

    There are certainly some things we cannot reveal about ourselves even to ourselves, and Dostoyevsky reveals them all. It is an immense courage within him and a gift to us. And he does so with a lightness of humour, and a shadow of grave knowledge of the human condition.

  • @dereklords9688
    @dereklords9688 2 роки тому +21

    The first book I read by Dostoyevsky was The Idiot, a book that has stuck with me my whole life since age 15. I finally came around to Notes from the Underground because it is so often referred to when explaining the origins of Existentialism, which continues to be the point of departure for me, philosophically. Yes, without the bloodshed, so far at least, this wonderful novel almost could be Crime and Punishment read in the first person.

  • @oliviageorge2384
    @oliviageorge2384 2 роки тому +36

    For the life of me I could not understand this book while I was reading it. It makes a lot more sense now that I am listening. Thank you!!

    • @soraya2218
      @soraya2218 2 роки тому +6

      Isn't that amazing. The same exact words can convey something totally different depending on how you absorb them. God bless!

    • @cobrabeatss6053
      @cobrabeatss6053 Рік тому +2

      Oh I thought I was dumb I clearly didn't understand what was going in book

  • @father_mihai
    @father_mihai 2 роки тому +20

    The narrator is a master. I come back to this recording several times a year simply because of how pleasant it is to listen to

  • @ambientcryptosadizane4028
    @ambientcryptosadizane4028 Рік тому +18

    There is a case to be made, this is the best book still to day.

  • @leonadrian7257
    @leonadrian7257 2 роки тому +11

    Finished in one sit. I have never been drawn in so much by a book.

  • @bro4life693
    @bro4life693 2 роки тому +11

    I’m completely astounded by this. Thank God for providing clarity when it’s needed most

  • @sinqobilebandile6558
    @sinqobilebandile6558 2 роки тому +27

    Great book, the mind works in strange ways and it can be difficult to understand your impulses(in thought and action), such a great book.. feels like a breath of fresh air.. I just appreciate that dostoyevsky had the courage to publish it, and we are lucky to have it read to us so well, definitely the best audiobook I've come across!

  • @sudhirpatel7620
    @sudhirpatel7620 6 років тому +36

    This man helps us get out of lies, love, selflessness, faith in God, the bullshit we suffer from in wishing nature were otherwise.

  • @lauratanner8475
    @lauratanner8475 2 роки тому +15

    Roughly the middle of the book, from the time he goes into the billiard room and meets the officer, until the end of dinner with his old mates when he meets Lisa is the best part. It's absolutely hilarious. I don't know how many times I've listened to this. The narration is superb and adds well to the tone of the material.

  • @schism5333
    @schism5333 5 років тому +52

    Finally the right narrator for the job. So many audiobooks will have a young man doing an old man's voice or a female doing a male etc. This is just right.

  • @coltmagnus6572
    @coltmagnus6572 5 років тому +26

    The narrator of this book is making believe he's the writer himself, and I'm captivated and can't fall asleep. Just like PKD's Valis.

  • @lesterbangs1890
    @lesterbangs1890 6 років тому +94

    Well I just loved every word, every thought, it was so intense and interesting. This man's thoughts, his mental status, poverty, life, almost love, and once again the author captivates me reaching over time and space within our human condition!

    • @dogfilms7753
      @dogfilms7753 3 роки тому

      So is this book saying dont be a jerk?

    • @handsomejack3829
      @handsomejack3829 Рік тому +2

      @@dogfilms7753 This book is simply saying you can not become anything not even a jerk.

    • @wadejameskennedy4495
      @wadejameskennedy4495 Рік тому

      Like

    • @brynawaldman5790
      @brynawaldman5790 Рік тому +2

      @@dogfilms7753 it examines self-sabotage, which is part of human consciousness. It also examines deep depression & the effects of extreme isolation on a person

  • @mansthulani7682
    @mansthulani7682 4 роки тому +32

    02:08:53 Either to be a hero or to grovel in the mud-there was nothing between. That was my ruin

  • @Caomusca
    @Caomusca 7 років тому +136

    suffering from 'Acute Consciousness' I like that.

    • @user-gq6dg7ee6d
      @user-gq6dg7ee6d 4 роки тому +4

      Better than suffering from brain damage

    • @ImGR888
      @ImGR888 2 роки тому +1

      @@user-gq6dg7ee6d I agree with your comment but it seems unnecessary

    • @sociallyhostileelement3425
      @sociallyhostileelement3425 2 місяці тому

      ​@@ImGR888, how are any comments "necessary"?

    • @ImGR888
      @ImGR888 2 місяці тому +1

      @@sociallyhostileelement3425 the comment I replied to was deleted if you’ll notice I didn’t reply to the main commenter.

  • @natnaelguchima7241
    @natnaelguchima7241 3 роки тому +19

    What a book, and what a narrator🙏👐

  • @matttgray
    @matttgray 3 роки тому +113

    45:00 compound personality
    57:00 logarithms to the wind
    1:00:00 will, reason, capacity for life. Will is a manifestation of the Whole life
    1:12:00 the process of building is more important than the destination ; idleness is the mother of all vices
    1:25:50 thirst for life ; pleased with talking nonsense ; no respect for suffering ; sincerity with no modesty ; boast of consciousness ; no full consciousness without a pure heart
    1:31:00 I purposely imagine an audience in front of me so that I may be dignified while I write ; what is the object in writing? 'It' is more imposing, more impressive on paper - that I may have relief in writing - that in writing 'it's down, I may get rid of 'it' ;
    1:34:00 extremely intelligent ; no vanity without high standards ; slavish passion for conventional, a dread of being ridiculous, a terror of eccentricity ;

  • @codenamecatatonic8894
    @codenamecatatonic8894 Рік тому +6

    I’m just over 40 & former government employee … Dostoyevsky got me out of the gate… great work, great narration.
    Thank you for posting this.

    • @mnemonicpie
      @mnemonicpie 11 місяців тому

      codename catatonic lmao

  • @sydneymorey6059
    @sydneymorey6059 4 роки тому +12

    What a lucky find. My very lucky day. Cheers UA-cam. Gems always awaiting discovery.

  • @jacobmirels9073
    @jacobmirels9073 3 роки тому +23

    In the first 20 minutes it talks of how men who are more self aware see them self more as mice than seeing their strengths is so true. Its completely understandable. I am amazed at how dense the first 30 minutes is. you cant just casually listen to this book. Its almost more like a study on psychology. Absolute genius but showing the dark side of truth.

    • @jagd7102
      @jagd7102 2 роки тому

      @@vilia5482 I suppose that's true. This feels more like thoughts put to words I didn't know how to convey than a deep insight into something unknown.

    • @vicb5231
      @vicb5231 Рік тому

      1z

  • @reddwing4368
    @reddwing4368 2 роки тому +10

    I always loved this book
    Read it so many times
    Secretly admiring the
    Underground at times
    Anti hero worship
    At its worst
    Or best
    To him he was finally free

  • @andrewg1210
    @andrewg1210 2 роки тому +58

    I've listened to a little over a dozen LibriVox audiobooks on UA-cam, and the reader of this one stands out as the best so far. The audio quality is crystal clear, and he speaks just as clearly. He never once stutters (except when it's in-character to do so intentionally) or fumbles over a word. He pronounces all words perfectly, including words in different languages; in a LibriVox recording of one of Nietzsche's works, the narrator butchered anything in French, but this narrator nails the pronunciation of every word as far as I can tell. When reading, he conveys emotion and vocally differentiates between characters without overdoing it; it's always at an appropriate level where it's engaging but never distracting. The speed is virtually perfect as well--I often end up adjusting the playback speed on these to 1.5× or sometimes even 2× because many readers go excessively slow, but I did not find that necessary in this one. Finally, the reader just has a great voice in general, and it is a pleasure to listen to him. Fantastic job!

    • @wadejameskennedy4495
      @wadejameskennedy4495 Рік тому +1

      Nailed

    • @perlefisker
      @perlefisker 9 місяців тому

      I agree. A formidable diction, cadence and dramatisation.
      The only problem I have is that his voice is obviously too old for the authenticity of the person speaking, being it a young Dostojevsky or Marlowe in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

    • @iamnobody2
      @iamnobody2 4 місяці тому

      this is a professional audiobook narrator

  • @Commentthat
    @Commentthat 4 роки тому +15

    Overcoming is the only option. Living is an obstacle. The art or war explains to postpone the fight until it is in your favor.

  • @2007Club
    @2007Club 5 років тому +91

    Okay when I was reading this book I felt that I was reading with anger and this guy reads calmly

    • @MrOreo2010
      @MrOreo2010 5 років тому +15

      Same here. To me the prose expressed agony, frustration, suffering, and anger in response.
      However, it might just be that the style of reading was chosen because it is easier to listen to and follow.
      (Also, he sounds older than 40)

    • @boatwreks
      @boatwreks 4 роки тому +5

      I nvr hear anger in Dostoyevsky. intense longing kinda gets bitter at times. I’m not mad tho lol

    • @tballhennings
      @tballhennings 4 роки тому +15

      The way one interprets words says more about the reader than the writer. In my opinion.

    • @zztopz7090
      @zztopz7090 4 роки тому +4

      What angers one person doesn't anger another.

    • @dolphineachonga555
      @dolphineachonga555 2 роки тому

      I felt resigned and cynical.

  • @harrydubois6940
    @harrydubois6940 3 роки тому +11

    Why do I relate so well with this protagonist I’m a little worried

  • @sirius3333
    @sirius3333 4 роки тому +34

    Why do l relate so much to the man from the underground. He described my miserable life .

    • @camwinston3364
      @camwinston3364 4 роки тому +9

      yes, you are correct, hearing this read to me a treat, misery loves company, im with you Godel. greetings from underground Seattle

    • @kylekissack4633
      @kylekissack4633 2 роки тому +4

      Stop being miserable it's a choice.. plunge yourself into society

    • @zjjdskjkfjkfkdsjfkjasbdfjkasbd
      @zjjdskjkfjkfkdsjfkjasbdfjkasbd Рік тому

      @@kylekissack4633 society is full of trivia and shallow morons? - though I guess that's just what polite conversation and behaviour is?

    • @mnemonicpie
      @mnemonicpie 11 місяців тому +3

      @@kylekissack4633 you mean become an insect?

  • @jasonapplebaum9871
    @jasonapplebaum9871 10 місяців тому +5

    This book literally feels like the narrator is going on one massive monologue just to get things off his chest like a rapper doing a freestyle. Sheesh, I felt him

    • @echofoxtrot2.051
      @echofoxtrot2.051 9 місяців тому +1

      Same. It's like he's venting.

    • @user-ss2ws6ox3p
      @user-ss2ws6ox3p 9 місяців тому

      В старой русской культуре это обычное явление. Русские до революции 1917 года были другими людьми...

    • @user-ss2ws6ox3p
      @user-ss2ws6ox3p 9 місяців тому

      Василий Розанов интересный ещё. Книга "Опавшие листья". Там похожее.

  • @krishnaskk5582
    @krishnaskk5582 3 роки тому +10

    To live longer than 40 years is bad manners,immoral". This man questions my existence !

    • @cheeseandonions9558
      @cheeseandonions9558 3 роки тому +3

      Mishima said that once a man turns 45, he cannot die a beautiful death.

  • @BrianScalabrineMVP
    @BrianScalabrineMVP 2 роки тому +12

    So this is the guy working the front desk at the DMV who tells everyone “they didn’t bring the correct documents” and sends them home after waiting 45 minutes in line

    • @kylekissack4633
      @kylekissack4633 2 роки тому +1

      LMAO he hated and judged everyone.. who he thought..he was invisible too? But also worried about what they thought of him strange man.. he hated himself and yet had an enflated view of himself

    • @mnemonicpie
      @mnemonicpie 11 місяців тому

      yes but without creative part

  • @barabbasonmusic5503
    @barabbasonmusic5503 5 років тому +50

    One of the most insightful books I have ever read/listened to... despairingly insightful.

    • @dogfilms7753
      @dogfilms7753 3 роки тому

      What's the message of this book?

    • @Brettsparadox
      @Brettsparadox 3 роки тому +6

      @@dogfilms7753 That even if we had a message we will inevitability undermine it. Whether through spite, boredom or inadequacy.. At least that's what I think it may be but also I have no idea lol

    • @Brettsparadox
      @Brettsparadox 3 роки тому +5

      @@dogfilms7753 Also that man values freedom and choices even over self interest and happiness

    • @poemanderpoemander3007
      @poemanderpoemander3007 2 роки тому

      Get a life.

    • @WiseOwl_1408
      @WiseOwl_1408 2 роки тому

      @@poemanderpoemander3007 you mad bro?

  • @echofoxtrot2.051
    @echofoxtrot2.051 9 місяців тому +3

    It's like listening to his brilliant thoughts. It's comforting knowing that mankind is the same as it always was. We always think we are the worst, but it's really just more of the same. I'd rather not change than to progress into a worsened state. I just wish more people would recognize that they're not better than the past. That the past should be learned from and not rejected or resented.

  • @sudhirpatel7620
    @sudhirpatel7620 7 років тому +46

    The unloved love only themselves even as they 'love' others.

    • @ArihantChawla
      @ArihantChawla 4 роки тому +7

      @B K It means that the longing to be loved drives them to love others in hope of reciprocity

    • @supermario162008
      @supermario162008 4 роки тому +3

      @@ArihantChawla not quite. It means that the unloved only "love" others because of the feeling that it brings themselves.

    • @ArihantChawla
      @ArihantChawla 4 роки тому +4

      @@supermario162008 Could be both, given it's Dostoevsky. But I had that interpretation when I first read it. Ofc Bob Nuefeld who reads this version had a closer interpretation to yours.

    • @carolinedunleavy6398
      @carolinedunleavy6398 3 роки тому

      @B K 😜

  • @irenemcnamara9699
    @irenemcnamara9699 4 роки тому +4

    I love listening to this narrator! He and the narrative remind me so much of my grandmother, who has been dead for some 40 years now. She would be sitting in her chair complaint just like Underground narrator.

  • @patrickkeyes5916
    @patrickkeyes5916 3 роки тому +7

    I’ve listened to a few of these, as this is one of my favorite books. This reader is the only one I’ve heard that doesn’t distort the narrator’s voice through overacting.

  • @rtt1961
    @rtt1961 8 років тому +26

    Great reader! He truly understands FD.

  • @lauratanner8475
    @lauratanner8475 2 роки тому +7

    This reading is a performance; perfectly executed!!! Bravo!!! 👏👏👏!!!

  • @Thecivilsavage1776
    @Thecivilsavage1776 Рік тому +10

    Impeccable insights, in depth remarks unto the lost human psyche, existential nooks and crannies of compelling wisdom. Great work!

  • @TheFortyTheives
    @TheFortyTheives 7 років тому +51

    Great voice for the narration, thanks

  • @heekyungkim8147
    @heekyungkim8147 3 роки тому +15

    I read this book 30 years ago... still amazing to listen... thanks for uploading this amazing story.

  • @BreakerOvTheBlackWinds
    @BreakerOvTheBlackWinds Рік тому +5

    Was listening at work....realized about half way through that after the first 2 hours or so I lost track of what was happening ....

    • @drewd4491
      @drewd4491 Рік тому +2

      Listen to it a couple dozen times

  • @nikolavgeorgiev
    @nikolavgeorgiev 5 років тому +277

    It's not perfect, but it might help someone:
    --
    00:00:00 - Underground - Part 1
    00:44:32 - Underground - Part 2
    --
    01:33:04 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 1 (01)
    02:06:24 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 1 (02)
    --
    02:18:21 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 2 (03)
    --
    03:20:45 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 3
    03:46:33 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 3 (07)
    --
    04:05:30 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 4 (08)
    04:32:23 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 4 (09)
    04:51:03 - A Propos of the Wet Snow - Part 4 (10)

    • @westerling8436
      @westerling8436 5 років тому +3

      thanks, brother

    • @Sarah-no7lv
      @Sarah-no7lv 4 роки тому

      Timestamps already in description clown

    • @user-gq6dg7ee6d
      @user-gq6dg7ee6d 4 роки тому +9

      @@Sarah-no7lv The description got it wrong

    • @Zanyverse
      @Zanyverse 4 роки тому +7

      @@Sarah-no7lv Can't click timestamps in description either "clown"

    • @bitimohamed4000
      @bitimohamed4000 4 роки тому +2

      Thank you

  • @goatrockhunters7866
    @goatrockhunters7866 2 роки тому +7

    The most real thing one can do is to spend a night in the cold woods. Nothing but a blanket to keep you warm. Wake in the morning with frost on you clothes and then sit and wait for the sun to finally come. You’ll find that is the coldest part of the morning. To be freezing yet feel the sun on your face.

  • @ThePainterr
    @ThePainterr 5 років тому +45

    Once this has entered one ear and left the other you are never the same person again you once were.

    • @BryanSalyersXD
      @BryanSalyersXD 4 роки тому +10

      Hey man, that makes no sense.
      When something enters one ear and out the other, you don't remember it, because it leaves you, leaves your ear.
      Also, saying again and following it with once were is entirely redundant.
      Here's a better what to say what I figure you were trying to say:
      Once this has entered your ears, you are never the same person again.
      Hope this helps.

    • @Sylux120
      @Sylux120 4 роки тому +1

      I don't think any of you were paying attention lol

    • @mnemonicpie
      @mnemonicpie 11 місяців тому

      @@Sylux120 I don't think you were too

    • @Sylux120
      @Sylux120 10 місяців тому

      @@mnemonicpie oh

  • @aziza_ravshanovas
    @aziza_ravshanovas 5 місяців тому +2

    That's the exact voice in my head while i was reading a paper book. EXACT VOICE

  • @kamuelalee
    @kamuelalee 5 років тому +6

    the reader has a great voice -- filled with gravitas

  • @MicLeo-ck1vf
    @MicLeo-ck1vf 7 років тому +5

    Thank you for this reading. Your voice and intonation.

  • @BilalFleifel
    @BilalFleifel 7 років тому +3

    I adore this voice !! just wow ! Thank you sir !

  • @laurasutor3626
    @laurasutor3626 2 роки тому +6

    Absolutely amazing narrator. Perfect of this piece of art ❤️

  • @vincentmalama5344
    @vincentmalama5344 10 місяців тому +3

    Chills the part he says "Damn underground" ❤

  • @christopherlawson2797
    @christopherlawson2797 9 років тому +35

    Wonderful narration!

  • @shirinkaul6661
    @shirinkaul6661 2 роки тому +9

    This book has shaken me to the deapths of my soul. I cannot believe how more people don't seem to know about this book.

    • @arp637
      @arp637 2 роки тому

      Hey Shirin, I'm Aditya. Can you recommend me more books or authors like Fyodor Dostoyevsky?

    • @shirinkaul6661
      @shirinkaul6661 2 роки тому +3

      @@arp637 I haven't read a lot if I'm being honest, but all works of Dostoyevsky are excellent. I'd highly recommend crime and punishment!

    • @tito6121
      @tito6121 2 роки тому +1

      @@arp637 nhi degi

    • @user-my6ed5no5x
      @user-my6ed5no5x Рік тому

      @@arp637 read all of them, they're good. not that many either.

    • @aytidaatpug812
      @aytidaatpug812 6 місяців тому

      ​@tito6121 de ya na de... if you listened to the book you would know that it is the presence of the eternal endeavour that matters

  • @electriceel3489
    @electriceel3489 2 роки тому +9

    Perfect narration and tone of voice. Thank you!

  • @teach9242
    @teach9242 5 років тому +9

    After this everything I read I read in Bob neufeld's voice and dialect and if in listening to another audiobook I want it to be his voice which makes me come back to this book again and again...
    *This is absolutely a Disease.*

  • @travisgilbertson7457
    @travisgilbertson7457 5 років тому +5

    Brilliantly narrated. Stunning.

  • @dbensdrawinvids8390
    @dbensdrawinvids8390 Рік тому +1

    I've never resonated with a narrator more in my life.

  • @user-lc5pp1hb1j
    @user-lc5pp1hb1j 9 днів тому +1

    “with love one can live even without happiness. Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.” Chapter VI Part II.

  • @heleynedaigle7021
    @heleynedaigle7021 3 роки тому +3

    Ah , que cette espiègle et lucide 👌
    attitude / angle : “ Tell it slanted “
    ( Emily Dickinson ) ✍️
    m’interpelle , m’inspire et m’enchante ‼️
    🙏 Grand MERCI 💝 de Québec , Canada 🌏

  • @pathofthegamer8590
    @pathofthegamer8590 10 місяців тому +7

    I've read this book several times and I love it more with each. So insightful. What a great reminder of something William James poignantly reminded us of many times; that hyper critical philosophizing, and even scientific rationalization, WITHOUT common sense does not dispel the pains of ambiguity, and it is obvious the man from the underground rejects common sense for the sublime and beautiful. This book is a panacea.

  • @nateTheNomad23
    @nateTheNomad23 3 роки тому +19

    Oh my god. Such an unexpectedly intrusive pierce into the hardened, dismissed, hidden vulnerabilities and truthfulness of inward experience.
    Ouch.

    • @dogfilms7753
      @dogfilms7753 3 роки тому

      What's the message of this book?

    • @nateTheNomad23
      @nateTheNomad23 6 місяців тому

      The way the author relates to himself and others sheds countless insights into various internal conflicts and dynamics of human nature, which can also be recognized in one self, with the impact of revelation or insight. Asking me to articulate "the message" presumes more than I care or possibly am even capable of re-orienting for you. Great works are to be taken in through the senses, for yourself, on many levels, not constricted into predetermined interpretations, analyzed into dust, and then lifelessly, bleakly imposed on the rest who are not to have an independent thought or experience of their own about it.
      As if the thoughts were found, the value extracted, the ground well walked, The story over, and nothing left to do other than accept what others have to say about how it really is. There is no valid prevailing authority, scholarly, formally, or otherwise, which dictates the quality and substance of things for others. The formalized interpretations of certainty and final conclusions, is inept at all it does, even if it does conduct its foolishness in a much more sophisticated manner than you or I do here.
      If only all knowledge could have already been extracted and analyzed at an earlier age in our history, so that nothing was left to be taken in, interpreted, or experienced for yourself. So all known things have been discovered, and all knowledge has been reinforced by a centralized authority, with its very own human limitations, fallacies and weaknesses.

  • @xxxtearfulangelxxx3128
    @xxxtearfulangelxxx3128 8 років тому +6

    Thank you, this was an excellent reading!

  • @baalschemtow
    @baalschemtow 2 роки тому +3

    The novel is so outstandingly well read! One cannot imagine the protagonist with a different voice and especially not with a different tone! Thank you very much for this fantastic literary listening pleasure!

  • @theemptyatom
    @theemptyatom 3 роки тому +26

    I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness-a real thorough-going illness. FD

    • @sociallyhostileelement3425
      @sociallyhostileelement3425 2 місяці тому

      I can relate. Many times I've thought about how much easier life would be if I rarely thought about anything deeper than my next meal or the next sporting event (not that there's anything wrong with either).

  • @TheSuperShepherd
    @TheSuperShepherd Місяць тому +2

    Man. What a viscious read
    A man who enjoys tormenting himself with how tormented he is. It’s an infinite loop, that I think can sum up this whole guy
    I hurt myself, so that I can feel the sweet joy of hurting myself, because I’m in a pain, and so to hurt myself makes me more of what I am.
    How… horrendous! Awful. And true

  • @anoopcna
    @anoopcna 3 роки тому +2

    I loved the narration.Apt for Dostoyesky. ❤️

  • @stateofalawites4039
    @stateofalawites4039 Рік тому +8

    I am just like the protagonist of this novel... As if Dostoevsky wrote it for me

  • @dromarkaraghuli
    @dromarkaraghuli 8 років тому +25

    Wow what a great narrator

    • @meganmay6543
      @meganmay6543 8 років тому +6

      +Omar Kg omg I know.. he fits this so well

    • @christopherhofmann9683
      @christopherhofmann9683 7 років тому

      Crystal Sheppard ,

    • @Deathordeath
      @Deathordeath 6 років тому

      I know, I can't stomach the other Dostoyevsky audiobooks so I had to start reading with his voice in mind.

    • @d3a1990
      @d3a1990 3 роки тому

      His readings of Twain are fantastic, too.

  • @nohypocrisy
    @nohypocrisy Рік тому +1

    the mind, the soul, ignorance, arrogance, dream, stray, patience, fear, life, worker, success, graduation, power, festival, self-deception, i struggle with myself, use reason so you can live for yourself

  • @scarasbf
    @scarasbf 2 роки тому +2

    Just read the description of the underground man because of some post I saw on Instagram, and the description I read of him matched me so well I was shocked.

  • @Nijisanji_and_anime_
    @Nijisanji_and_anime_ 5 місяців тому +3

    I have the original copy but I could never get more then 5 pages in each time I read it so while drawing I decided to listen to this and its so much better TwT.

  • @lkd982
    @lkd982 Рік тому +9

    "Sluggard? It is a calling, a vocation, a career!" Absolutely brilliant

  • @apian29
    @apian29 5 місяців тому +1

    The reading on this is phenomenal. Great job!

  • @N.A.M.LazyCloud
    @N.A.M.LazyCloud 5 років тому +1

    What a perfect reading.

  • @BinaryJoe
    @BinaryJoe 2 роки тому +3

    This was beautiful. Thanks.

  • @cheeseandonions9558
    @cheeseandonions9558 3 роки тому +7

    I just realized this is Raskolnikov's essay from the Weekly Review.

    • @rc8770
      @rc8770 2 роки тому

      i thought he lived up stairs

    • @cheriyakavil
      @cheriyakavil Рік тому

      @@rc8770 you are sharp👍

  • @bettyascencio2034
    @bettyascencio2034 9 років тому +2

    So Helpful!

  • @robdoggerful
    @robdoggerful 2 роки тому +1

    This one is worthy of a movie speculating on man as the movie should traverse across history and mans nature.

  • @michaelze6832
    @michaelze6832 3 роки тому +7

    "When from dark error's subjugation
    My words of passionate exhortation
    Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free; And writhing prone in thine affliction Thou didst recall with malediction
    The vice that had encompassed thee: And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting By recollection's torturing flame, Thou didst reveal the hideous setting Of thy life's current ere I came:
    When suddenly I saw thee sicken,
    And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted, maddened, horror-stricken,
    At memories of foul disgrace."

  • @judemarks5965
    @judemarks5965 2 роки тому +6

    He really just casually predicted the 21st century

  • @emycroc3286
    @emycroc3286 4 роки тому +1

    Finished. Wow. What a book.

  • @fernandocortes1187
    @fernandocortes1187 2 роки тому +2

    The best reading I hace ever listened to