The House of the Dead (Classics)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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.
Kategori:
Tahun:
2003
Edisi:
Annotated
Penerbit:
Penguin
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
370
ISBN 10:
0141915862
ISBN 13:
9780141915869
File:
AZW3 , 481 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2003