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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140444568Number of pages: 368Weight: 269 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An undisputable giant of Russian fiction,Fyodor Dostoevsky remains one of the most widely read Russian writers,best known for iconic novels Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov.
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