Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,  1821-1881, <br/><br/>
Memoirs from the house of the dead / 
Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Jessie Coulson ; edited with an introduction and notes by Ronald Hingley. 
 - Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  2020. 
 - 1 online resource (400 pages). 
 - Oxford world's classics .
<br/><br/> Translated from the Russian.  Previously issued in print: 1983. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail.  The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment.  For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780191921681 (ebook) :  No price 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Labor camps--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--Fiction.<br/>Exiles--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>891.733