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The house of the dead

Dostoyevsky, FyodorMcDuff, David(Introduction by)McDuff, David(Translated by)
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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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Penguin Classics
0140444564 / 9780140444568
Paperback / softback
891.733
26/09/1985
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
366 p.
20 cm
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