Of the modern novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky is among the greatest Russian writers of the nineteenth century. In ''Les Carnets du sous-sol'', he tells the story of a reclusive man who, from his basement, observes the world in a low angle. The narrator spits out his words with bitterness, his obstinate refusal of happiness, pours out his anxieties and his hatred towards humanity. Written in 1864, there is a condensed version of the barbaric fury that is the work of the author and the basis of the great novels to come: ''Crimes and Punishments'', ''The Player'', or ''The Brothers Karamazo''. Produced by Maya Heuse of Editions Theeleme, Hubert-Felix Thiefaine, with his constant and solemn expression of emotion and bitterness, succeeds in transmitting to the listener all the melancholy, sincerity and violence of the novel. It depicts all the poetry of this work, which one would describe as a proto-punk, by its disillusionment, it sdisenchanted vision of the world, and which, as the author indicated, was intended as the narrative of a ''generation in survival''.