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Notes From a Dead House
[Paperback - 2016]
fyodor dostoevsky
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Classics
Additional Category: Literary Collections - Crime
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780307949875 | Pages: 336
Shipping Weight: .238 | Dimensions: 5.18 x .74 x 7.98 inches

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In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) depicts brutal punishments, feuds, betrayals, and the psychological effects of confinement, but it also reveals the moments of comedy and acts of kindness that Dostoevsky witnessed among his fellow prisoners. 
       To get past government censors, Dostoevsky made his narrator a common-law criminal rather than a political prisoner, but the perspective is unmistakably his own. His incarceration was a transformative experience that nourished all his later works, particularly Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky’s narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. His story is, finally, a profound meditation on freedom: “The prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being.” 

About the Author

Works, such as the novelsCrime and Punishment(1866),The Idiot(1869), andThe Brothers Karamazov(1880), of Russian writerFeodor Mikhailovich DostoyevskyorDostoevskicombine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.Very influential writings ofMikhail Mikhailovich BakhtinincludedProblems of Dostoyevsky's Works(1929),Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed hisDemons(1872).Many literary critics rate him of the greatest of world literature and consider multiple highly influential masterpieces. They consider hisNotes from Undergroundof the first existentialist literature. He also well acts as a philosopher and theologian.(Russian:Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see alsoFiodor Dostoïevski)

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