- Taschenbuch: 368 Seiten
- Verlag: Penguin Classics; Auflage: Reprint (27. Mai 2010)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0140444564
- ISBN-13: 978-0140444568
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,5 x 2,2 x 19,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.2 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
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Fictionalised account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp. Translated by David McDuff.
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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 recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange 'family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet "The House of the Dead" is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man's spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.
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Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead is an account of life in a Siberian prison, drawing heavily from its author's own imprisonment for sedition. The narrator is nominally serving time for murdering his wife out of jealousy, but Dostoevsky makes very little effort to maintain the artifice that the narrator is anyone other than himself, as the narrator even refers to himself as a political prisoner on a couple of occasions. The novel consists mainly of a series of anecdotes relating such things as the staging of a prison play, the memories of some convicts of the crimes that landed them in prison, and the attempted escape of two of the prisoners, all interspersed among observations of more day-to-day affairs like prison food and corporal punishment.
A number of the stories are very interesting, and overall Dostoevsky paints an impressive picture of prison life as a whole. Though it's clear that his experience in prison was a brutal one, the reader never feels as though Dostoevsky is overplaying the prisoners' suffering, which makes it seem all the more authentic. However, I'd have to say this sort of narrative doesn't really play into Dostoevsky's overall strength as an author. Dostoevsky's best works generally have a strong and coherent (though in some cases somewhat melodramatic) plot that develops more or less linearly throughout the novel; The House of the Dead, on the other hand, is hardly more than a series of related roughly-15-page short stories and so inevitably lacks the suspense of much of Dostoevsky's other work. For the same reason, none of the characters get especially well developed--the reader is left with a lot of interesting character sketches, none of which get fleshed out.
As such, it's sort of unfair to compare The House of the Dead with many of Dostoevsky's best known works, since the format doesn't allow Dostoevsky to show some of the strengths he shows elsewhere. Taken in isolation, though, it's a fine account of life in the Siberian prisons of the mid-19th century, and it mixes the elements of a documentary with those of a novel well enough to ultimately be a very interesting and enjoyable work.
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I'm only 19, but I know this will be my favorite book forever. It takes you inside the darker places that exist inside the psyche of every human, and makes the renewed hope brought by deep suffering shine through.
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This book examines to what extent a man will go to keep his humanity. Among feters and prison walls, a different sort of society emerges. How is a caged man different from a caged animal? Does a prison truely change a man for the better? This is a great book.
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A Decent Book
I'd say this is certainly not Dostoyevsky at his finest, but for the most part, the book was entertaining. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Dezember 1998 von Bobby Petty
Shackled
I read "Crime and Punishment" expecting a harrowing tale of the punishment experienced by the author during his time in prison. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. September 1998 von sparx@hotmail.com
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