THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD – FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

A searing account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. ‘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. In this fictionalized account he describes his soul‑destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden‑plank beds, his strange “family” of boastful, cruel convicts. Yet this is far more than a work of documentary realism; it is also a powerful novel of redemption, exploring one man’s spiritual death and the miracle of his reawakening. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David McDuff.

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