{"product_id":"notes-from-underground","title":"Notes from Underground","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era\" —\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emarks 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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis destined to stand with their versions of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas the definitive Dostoevsky in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis audiobook is skillfully read by Alan Turton, with audio engineering by Raconteurs Audio. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books \u0026amp; Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Echo Point Books \u0026 Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45961725247661,"sku":"9798349136917","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/9134\/1997\/files\/NotesfromtheUnderground_FC.jpg?v=1777478038","url":"https:\/\/www.echopointbooks.com\/products\/notes-from-underground","provider":"Echo Point Books \u0026 Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}