Notes from the Underground (audio)

Notes from the Underground, published in 1864, marks a turning point in Dostoevsky’s writing: it announces the moral, political and social ideas that he will further examine in Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamozov. The book opens with a tormented soul crying out, “I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.” This is the cry of an alienated individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literature.