Fall asleep to the story of literature's first anti-hero, the sick and spiteful man who spoke the modern mind's secret.
In the winter of a year that would take almost everyone he loved, a broke and grieving writer set loose the strangest voice in Russian literature, a nameless man in a rented corner who declares himself sick, spiteful, and free. This episode stays inside that single short book, Notes from Underground, and follows its narrator all the way down. We begin at the desk where it was written, then enter his war on reason, on the science of happiness, and on the gleaming palace of the perfect future. We follow him out of his head and into the world, to a humiliating dinner, a snowbound street, and an encounter with a young woman that becomes the truest and cruelest scene he ever lived. Along the way we uncover the chapter a censor quietly cut, and the buried answer it removed. What remains is the first modern confession, and a mind we still recognize as our own.
Please listen only in safe, restful contexts.
Chapters:
0:00:00 Chapter 1: The Year of the Underground
0:11:37 Chapter 2: A Sick and Spiteful Voice
0:17:55 Chapter 3: The Disease of Consciousness
0:29:22 Chapter 4: The Wall and the Arithmetic
0:37:40 Chapter 5: The Most Advantageous Advantage
0:49:08 Chapter 6: The Palace You Cannot Live In
0:55:18 Chapter 7: Divorced from Living Life
1:02:57 Chapter 8: Apropos of the Wet Snow
1:14:25 Chapter 9: A Farewell Dinner
1:23:01 Chapter 10: The Speech in the Dark
1:33:53 Chapter 11: The Silence Before the Knock
1:41:21 Chapter 12: Cheap Happiness or Lofty Suffering
1:52:29 Chapter 13: The Chapter the Censor Cut
2:01:05 Chapter 14: Such a Person Must Exist
2:06:47 Chapter 15: The First Modern Man
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Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Tracks used: Anguish, Blue Feather, Evening Fall (Harp), Gregorian Chant, Heartbreaking, Lightless Dawn, Lone Harvest, Magic Forest, Mesmerize, Mourning Song, Oppressive Gloom, Promising Relationship, Quinn's Song: A New Man, Relent, Smoother Move, Sunset at Glengorm, Trio for Piano Cello and Clarinet, Wounded
