Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky ,
Notes from a Dead House (Vintage Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780307949875
- author:
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky ,
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Broadway Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 11.7 x 2.3 x 18.3 cm
- Genre:
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery, Thrillers, , Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Fyodor M Dostoevsky,Notes from a Dead House (Vintage Classics),Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc),0307949877,Gene
- Condition:
- New
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- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
In 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp. After his release, he wrote Notes from a Dead House, a novel based on notes he smuggled out of the camp. The book depicts brutal punishments, feuds, betrayals, and the psychological effects of confinement, but also reveals moments of comedy and kindness among fellow prisoners. To get past government censors, Dostoevsky made his narrator a common-law criminal rather than a political prisoner, yet the perspective remains unmistakably his own. Dostoevsky's incarceration was a transformative experience that nourished all his later works, including Crime and Punishment. His story is a profound meditation on freedom, highlighting the resilience of strong and beautiful souls even in the most debased circumstances.
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