Name: notes from the house of the dead
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Author: Fiódor M. Dostoievski
ISBN: 9780802866479

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Translated by

Boris Jakim

Preface by

James Scanlon

Publisher

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.7 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.49 kg.

ISBN

0802866476

ISBN13

9780802866479

Synopsis "notes from the house of the dead"

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. First published in 1861, this novel, based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a political prisoner, is a forerunner of his famous novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. 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 -- one in which he would create some of the greatest novels ever written. Including an illuminating introduction by James Scanlan on Dostoevsky's prison years, this totally new translation by Boris Jakim captures Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical narrative -- at times coarse, at times intensely emotional, at times philosophical -- in rich American English.

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Moscow, November 11, 1821-Saint Petersburg, February 9, 1881) was one of the main writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social, and spiritual context of Russian society in the second half of the 19th century

He is considered one of the greatest writers of the West and of world literature.

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