Description: Memoirs from the House of the Dead, Paperback by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Hingley, Ronald (EDT); Coulson, Jessie (TRN), ISBN 0199540519, ISBN-13 9780199540518, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, 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 Dantes 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.
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Book Title: Memoirs from the House of the Dead
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: General, Literary
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
