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Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal
servitude in Serbia, 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.
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