We push onward into our Summer Arts and Literature Series on From the Vault with the final readings from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel, Notes From Underground. First published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered by many scholars to be Dostoevsky’s most philosophical effort, introducing to Underground Man, who is filled with self-contempt and self-betrayal without being aware of it. Dostoevsky’s novel – equally criticized with the same passion as it is championed – is widely considered to be a prologue to his later work. Ultimately, his writing would have a profound influence on writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
In 1972, Kathy Dobkin produced the 3rd annual WBAI reading of a classic novel, this time choosing Notes From Underground. This fourth of four parts is read by Stacy Keach from a David Magarshack translation of the novel.
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