Let's Read Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Audiobook)
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- This is an audio presentation of Dostoevsky's novella Notes from Underground, with occasional clarifying commentary from the reader.
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CONTENTS:
1. Reader's Introduction--0:34
PART I: Underground
2. Chapter I.I--18:55
3. Chapter I.II--28:48
4. Chapter I.III--38:44
5. Chapter I.IV--51:18
6. Chapter I.V--56:29
7. Chapter I.VI--1:03:52
8. Chapter I.VII--1:08:00
9. Chapter I.VIII--1:26:55
10. Chapter I.IX--1:41:11
11. Chapter I.X:--1:49:48
12. Chapter I.XI:--1:54:53
PART II: A Propos of the Wet Snow
13. Chapter II.I:--2:05:32
14. Chapter II.II:--2:45:38
15. Chapter II.III:--2:59:15
16. Chapter II.IV:--3:26:11
17. Chapter II.V:--3:56:28
18. Chapter II.VI:--4:11:06
19. Chapter II.VII:--4:41:09
20. Chapter II.VIII:--5:02:01
21. Chapter II.IX:--5:32:02
22. Chapter II.X:--5:53:08
23. Concluding Thoughts:--6:08:26
Background image: "Conscience, Judas" by Nikolai Ge (1891)
Your audiobooks and commentary are wonderful. Thank you so much!
Many thanks, Christy. Looks like we have a shared interest!
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I'm so happy to see you recently commit to the larger novels with Crime and Punishment!
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Comments:
Part I:
Chapter I: 28:18
Chapter II: 37:40
Chapter III: 50:28
Chapter IV: 55:53
Chapter VI: 1:07:21
Chapter VII: 1:23:35
Chapter X: 1:54:12
Chapter XI: 2:04:36
Part 2
Chapter I: 2:43:00
Chapter II: 2:58:14
Chapter IV: 3:55:31
Chapter V: 4:09:56
Chapter VIII: 5:31:18
I cannot express how grateful I am, I like to learn english through reading books and reading for destovesky is my first choice. The way you read makes words alive and easier to understand than just reading them.
Thanks very much--my best wishes for your English studies!
A youtube channel precisely dedicated to Dostoevsky's works
I can't really believe I've found this
truly appreciate your efforts ( thankyou! )
Masterful narration and overall representation. Thank you for your selflessness. Blessings from Bavaria.
You are an excellent voice actor
this is the second novel I listen to in your channel and I think I will come here whenever I want to listen to Dostoyevsky's works. you've done a great job both in this work and the double!! Thank you so much
Thank you so much for this reading as well as your insights you lay out throughout the reading. It truly adds to the beauty of the experience.
It's my pleasure. I am glad you enjoyed!
Thank you very much! This truly is a work of art.
Everything about it is excellent, but I want to specifically convey my appreciation for your educational introduction, contextualising break-ins, and highly impressive concluding thoughts - the value that I derived from these extra touches was substantial. Having just completed the listen (after reading the novella two years ago), I find myself fast-tracked into a philosophical inquiry of the work many steps ahead of where I think I’d otherwise be. I look forward to sharing your work with my friends!
Thank you for the time and effort you put into these audiobooks. I especially like your commentary. It adds clarity and understanding. Are you planning on doing all of Dostoevsky's books?
I am uncertain of whether I quite have the ambition to tackle everything. Dostoevsky wrote six full length novels; I did one of them (Insulted and Injured, which hadn't been done in this environment before), but the other five are all longer and very large projects. Perhaps I will do them after all! But at the least, I do plan on working through the novellas and short stories.
I am glad the commentary is helpful!
You have a great reading voice. I've already read the book, but it's great listening to you as well 😀
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It's my pleasure--and welcome aboard!
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thanks for excellent reading and love the format; great work(s), cheers
Thanks very kindly--I am glad you enjoyed!
Whenever I finish one of his books, it's always too much to take in, and I suppress it all, only feeling the emotions incrementally over the course of weeks or even months or even years.
Please keep doing these! your voice is awesome, your talent is unbelievable, and although I've read all his books, I learn SO much from your commentaries.
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I was sold at, "I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine anyway" ! LOL
That particular line has a bit of a history, if I remember correctly. Medicine had taken center stage in Russian literature with Bazarov from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Later, Chernyshevsky's celebrated novel (to which Dostoevsky is responding here) featured two principal characters who were doctors. I suspect that D has this trend in the back of his mind here.
@@hippiasminor6264 That's fascinating, thanks for the explanation. At some point I want to read or listen to "What Is To Be Done". My own experience is that even now people with certain neglected conditions often receive gaslighting from physicians more than they receive help. For example if ME/CFS had been taken seriously by medicine we would likely now have real solutions for 'Long Covid'. Fauci says they are essentially the same condition. Medicine is not pure science/reason but also involves a lot of culture and and a lot of $$$
can you do winter notes on summer impression
What translation is this?
Garnett
"Jesting against the grain ". Could have been the title of this work.
1:24.28
Thank you for doing such an amazing job at reading dostoyevsky! Do you have any plans to read more of his works?
Yes--in fact, I am currently tinkering with a short story of his called "The Crocodile." The pace of the project has slowed a little bit as I have been managing other things, but it will certainly get done.
The question for the future is whether my ambition will extend to the longer works--e.g. Crime and Punishment or Demons, etc. Those require a major time investment.
Thanks so much for your interest in the channel!
Gives me Taxi Driver vibes
This would've been a great reading if it wasn't for the unnaturally long pauses between each and every sentence. I find my attention constantly trailing off against my will because of that, even though I normally have no problem listening to longer audiobooks or podcasts. A more natural, conversational tone would probably help.
Regarding your concluding thoughts, I struggle to understand the part about the underground man not truly believing in free will, where does he express that? You said he longs for free will but as he can't truly believe in it he ends up aimlessly banging his head on the wall that is laws of nature. I think that's very interesting but I might've missed the part in which we are shown he cannot believe in it?
Excellent challenge! Now, let's see if I can meet it...
(It's possible that the some of the following just repeats parts of my already recorded thoughts. My apologies if it does.)
The first thing to observe is that the UG Man explicitly rejects a compatibilist notion of free will--that is, he refuses to believe in a kind of free will that meshes with determinism. We know this from the last lines of Part I Chapter VIII. So, the next question is whether he believes in determinism. (If he does, then he can't believe in free will.)
I'm convinced that he does. There are three aspects of the text that lead to my judgment here--at any rate, three that I can come up with at the moment.
The first is his repeated insistence in, say, the last paragraph of Part I Chapter II that neither he nor his opponent (the man who has insulted or slapped him) are to blame for anything--rather, the laws of nature are doing everything. This is not a sort of Zen quietism; it's a source of deep irritation or outrage for the man.
Second, there is the metaphor of the stone wall in Part I Chapter III. The penultimate paragraph concedes that he cannot break through the stone wall--although of course he wants to. The stone wall represents in this case both the laws of nature and arithmetic, but of course it's the former that is salient here. And so the laws of nature cannot be broken, it seems.
Finally, there is a fascinating passage in Part I Chapter V. It's worth quoting at length:
"I repeat with emphasis: all 'direct' persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing....Where are the primary causes on which I am to build? Where are my foundations? Where am I to get them from? I exercise myself in reflection, and consequently with me every primary cause at once draws after itself another still more primary, and so on to infinity. That is just the essence of every sort of consciousness and reflection. It must be a case of the laws of nature again."
Now, I've suggested elsewhere that this passage is ambiguous between efficient and final causation--that is, between the prior causes of our action in the sequence of time and the goals or proper aims of our action. I suspect that Dostoevsky has *both* senses in mind. But the bit at the end about the laws of nature suggests that he at *least* is thinking about determinism (and those prior causes in time) here...and is conceding that determinism has sway over his actions.
So, it seems that the UG Man believes both in determinism and in the idea that determinism vitiates free will. So, he can't consistently believe in free will, although of course he's not pleased about this.
(There *is* a flip side, though--which you may have in mind! It's that claim in, say, Part I Chapter VII that man wants that independent choice--indeed, the opportunity to make an irrational decision just to spite you. So, you could argue in the opposite direction.)
At any rate, there's my answer! Thanks kindly for the question. (You just happened to catch me at a good time for it, as well.)
@@hippiasminor6264 Excuse my late reply to your very detailed answer.
This is very very interesting to me, I haven't found any other analysis videos with a similar point as yours. I see now what you mean, and while it is quite paradoxical that is something to be expected of the underground man as he is nothing if not paradoxical.
The way I see it now is he doesn't believe in true and complete free will that is not limited by the laws of nature, but he believes in a human desire to have that free will and that's ehy humans would never accept an equation telling them what to do, basically humans seek the illusion of free will.
Yes, this is close to my own view.
I once attended a talk by Derk Pereboom, a modern day hard determinist. (I think he once wrote a book called Living without Free Will.) He basically just shrugged off the notion of free will: "Yeah, you don't have it, so get over it."
That is definitely not the UG Man's attitude! He craves what he (apparently) cannot have.
(Since your first post, I was mulling over this a little bit and considered another angle. A few years ago, I was struck by Kant's discussion of FW in his second "critique." Kant also spoke a bit like the UG Man in that he appeared to argue for both incompatibilism and determinism. Yet, paradoxically, he still insisted on the existence of FW! His attempt to squirrel out of the apparent contradiction was to claim that FW takes place outside of space and time, somehow. Obviously, *that* isn't the UG Man's position, but both of these figures feel the paradox acutely.)
4:11:06
I came for the book. Not commentary.
Lol. Narcissistic
Freud reads, and his future appears before him like the sun.
The original incel 😮
I'd give the nod to Richard III, myself. :-)
(Come to think of it, I should probably comb through Ovid's stuff to see if I can find a classical prototype.)
I think you were supposed to make your conclusion thoughts easy but you failed miserably to me. I didn't even get most of it, if anyone ask me ,what it is about? i would be like idk. yes, myEnglish is bad but come help me out a little bit.
Lol. Read children's books maybe?