Notes from a dead house [sound recording]
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-18812015
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n 1849 Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for his participation in a utopian socialist discussion group. The account he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, was the first book to reveal life inside the Russian penal system. The book not only brought him fame but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing.Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) is filled with vivid details of brutal punishments, shocking conditions, feuds and betrayals, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom, but it also describes moments of comedy and acts of kindness. There are grotesque bathhouse and hospital scenes that seem to have come straight from Dante..s?? Inferno, alongside daring escape attempts, doomed acts of defiance, and a theatrical Christmas celebration that draws the entire community together in a temporary suspension of their grim reality.
Main title:
Notes from a dead house [sound recording] / Fyodor Dostoyevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Imprint:
USA : Blackstone Audio, 2015.
Collation:
11 sound discs ( 13 hrs. 30 mins.)
Notes:
Compact discs.Complete and unabridged.Read by Stefan Rudnicki.Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781483084015
Dewey class:
AV823 DOS
Local class:
823 DOS
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2028147