Notes from a dead house
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
Contributors: Pevear, Richard, 1943- translator; Volokhonsky, Larissa, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780307959591
Subjects: Prisoners' writings, Russian; Exiles; Fiction
Work titles: Zapiski iz mertvogo doma
Description: Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into English. Long before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. The characters and situations that Dostoevsky encountered in prison were so violent and extraordinary that they changed his psyche profoundly. Through that experience, he later said, he was resurrected into a new spiritual condition.
Notes: Translation from the Russian of: Zapiski iz mertvogo doma.

Includes bibliographical references.