{"product_id":"book-1gfp","title":"Notes from Underground","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e marks 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 One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive,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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to stand with their versions of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopyright (c) 1993 Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Recorded by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. (P) 2025 Echo Point Books \u0026amp; Media, LLC\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamscape","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":51225310855472,"sku":"BD1gfp","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1gfp-Square-cover.jpg?v=1774564411","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1gfp","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}