Notes from Underground

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Fyodor Dostoevsky published Notes from Underground in 1864. An unnamed narrator, spiteful and self-aware, delivers a monologue from his basement apartment in St. Petersburg. He is unpleasant. He knows he is unpleasant. He cannot stop. It is the first existentialist novel, written sixty years before existentialism had a name, and every alienated narrator since — from Kafka's to Camus's — is descended from this man in his basement.