Memoirs from the House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ronald Hingley, Jessie Coulson

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Worlds Classics
12 June 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Oxford World's Classics

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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 inticate 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 serence 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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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Edited by: Ronald Hingley
Translated by: Jessie Coulson
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780199540518
ISBN 10: 0199540519
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 12 June 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active