Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp a horrifying experience from which, years later, he developed this semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to penal servitude for murdering his wife. Describing in
The House of the Deadby Fyodor Dostoyevsky; H. Sutherland Edwards
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- Book ID
- 125028174
- Publisher
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
- Year
- 1964
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0037-6752
- DOI
- 10.2307/304236
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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 incarcerati
The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1862 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead and Notes from the Dead House. The book is a loosely-knit col