The House of the Dead - Couverture souple

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140444564 ISBN 13 : 9780140444568

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1985

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David McDuff's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, and Babel's short stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140444564
• ISBN 13: 9780140444568
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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