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The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

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 and ranks among his great masterpieces.

The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  • Presumed 2nd paperback printing in this edition

     

    Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light scuffing on spine. Softcover.

     

    Publishing Info: Penguin, New York

    ISBN: 9780140444568

     

    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 intricate 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 Dante's Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serene 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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