by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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...
bookshelves: published-1861, slavic, winter-20142015, classic, casual-violence Read from December 06 to 08, 2014 Online version found by Wandaful: read here Education has nothing whatever to do with moral deterioration. Description (wiki sourced): The narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchiko...
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Read this for a Tolstoy and Dostoevsky class, and while it is very good, I think it would be even better had I not needed to read the whole thing in under a week. Though it's a short book, it is very dense, with a lot of detail and one-or-two-page long paragraphs, etc.All in all, the very un-Dostoev...
"Novel" (but reads like memoirs) based on his experiences in a Siberian hard labour camp. Also shades of Robinson Crusoe: self-assurance of his own superiority and the pragmatic and ingenious approach to making the best of things, coupled with earnest self improvement and positive spin (eg "I also p...
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