Groundbreaking and intensely provocative, 'Notes from the Underground' serves as a fierce ideological attack on nineteenth-century rationalism. The narrative isolates the thoughts of an embittered, unnamed retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. Through his brilliant, contradictory, and deeply human monologues, Dostoevsky explores the limits of free will, the necessity of suffering, and the dark corners of the human ego. Narrated with flawless psychological depth by George Baker.