The House of the Dead (Penguin Classics)

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by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

: The House of the Dead (Penguin Classics)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.733
EAN: 9780140444568
ISBN: 0140444564
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: January 07, 1986
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics

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In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange 'family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet "The House of the Dead" is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man's spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.

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- A Documentary of 19th Century Russian Prison Camps
Dostoyevsky wrote from his heart and mostly, his suffering.

The House of the Dead, for me, was a difficult read.

The Siberian labour camps of the 19th century reveals suffering and cruelty in its true, ugly form.

Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, narrates his experience in detail and if one enters the text, understands his viewpoint and his growing learning curve to merely remain alive.

Goryanchikov's (Dostoyevskys) imprisonment was for sedition: ... Read More

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- The House of the Dead
You can't go wrong with Dostoyevsky. Plus you can't beat the price, it was only $3.50!!!!!

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- Surviving the House of the Dead
The "House of the Dead" is an early semi autobiographical work of Fyodor Dostoevsky, telling the tale of a nobleman who is imprisoned in a labour camp in Siberia for a crime of passion. The tale is semi-autobiographical because Dostoevsky as a young man was also imprisoned in Siberia for being a member of a radical political organisation an experience which was to form and influence his amazing insights and understanding of human nature.

Although not Dostoevsky greatest work "House of the ... Read More

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- Great Cultural Perspective
Based on Dostoyevsky experiences after spending four years in prison under the most horrific of conditions, with inadequate food and shelter, and little or no privacy. This psychologigal and sociological study of prisoners who have committed heinous crimes recognizes that people are capable of redemption and are entitled to live with dignity. Men who have slipped into misfortune and as usual contains much humor and insight into the human condition

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- Days of fear and hope
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The House of the Dead" is one of the most powerful narratives about life in prison. A quasi-autobiographical work, the writer used the days he spent in Siberia prison to create powerful moments of sadness, fear and hope. Not many were able to be released from there, but he was one of them, and with this work he reminds everyone what it is about to be a political prisoner.

"The House of the Dead" may not be one of best works from this Russian writer, who produced masterpieces ... Read More