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Notes from a Dead House

Notes from a Dead House Contemporary literature

Notes from a Dead House

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A beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. With an introduction by Richard Pevear. Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The account he wrote afterward (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) is filled with vivid details of brutal punishments, shocking conditions, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom and hope, but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, and the acts of kindness he observed. As a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was despised by most of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator--a nobleman who has killed his wife--experiences a similar struggle to adapt. He also undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. Notes from a Dead House reveals the prison as a tragedy both for the inmates and for Russia. It endures as a monumental meditation on freedom.
Product details
Number of Pages:
376
Release Date:
2021-02-02
Publication Date:
2021-02-02
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0307959619
ISBN13:
9780307959614
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
516 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
206 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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