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After his time in the camps and a further six years of exile Dostoevsky returned to Petersburg and wrote The House of the Dead. The novel incorporates several of the horrifying experiences he witnessed while in prison.
The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in installments between 1860 and 1862. The novel’s unnamed narrator comes into possession of...
25 de sept. de 2011 · Title: The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Release Date: September 25, 2011 [EBook #37536]
5 de mar. de 2012 · Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this...
‘Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth’ 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.
The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) depicts brutal punishments, feuds, betrayals, and the psychological effects of confinement, but it also reveals the ...
The House of the Dead is a novel that portrays the harsh life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The book is noted for containing philosophical discussions.
