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Dostoevsky Fyodor - Memoirs From The House Of The Dead - Paperback
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Description: 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. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: Memoirs From The House Of The Dead
Author(s): Dostoevsky Fyodor, Ronald Hingley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199540518
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: 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. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: Memoirs From The House Of The Dead
Author(s): Dostoevsky Fyodor, Ronald Hingley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199540518
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Fiction In Translation
