Memoirs from the House of the Dead
In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their...
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In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199540518 (0199540519)
ASIN: 199540519
Publish date: August 1st 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 366
Edition language: English
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At last… When I started this book it seemed catchy. It was interesting how Dostoyevsky described life in jail. He didn’t give so much importance to the crimes committed. Rather, he was writing about life in jail and how prisoners arrived there. So far so good. The problem is that this book goes nowh...
This is one of those very rare books where I read the first two sentences and know instantly that I was going to love it. The House of the Dead is one of the post-imprisonment books that Dostoevsky wrote, and in short, it is the story of a man sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the murder of hi...
This is a semi-autobiographical account of Dostoyevsky's time in prison. It lacks a sense of time or a plot. The first part of the book has a sort of temporal structure, but Dostoyevsky leaps out of it so frequently, that it is completely undermined. The narrator is strangely distant, he speaks m...
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