The House of the Dead
Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
ISBN: 9780140444568
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 1986
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A fictionalised account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy
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.
ISBN: 9780140444568
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 1986
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A fictionalised account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy
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.
