Fiodor Dostoïevski: Notes from a dead house (2015)
311 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2015
Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into English. Long before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. The characters and situations that Dostoevsky encountered in prison were so violent and extraordinary that they changed his psyche profoundly. Through that experience, he later said, he was resurrected into a new spiritual condition.
Dostoevsky’s “The House of the Dead” is one of the most profound books on life, prison, and the passage of time I’ve ever read. Prison undoubtedly changed him, and the book embodies the full ugliness of his transition.
