God Grant That I Not Go Insane" 2 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plain 2021-12-17T19:20:55+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1833 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 59. Comradely Greetings 2 Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova plain 2021-12-17T19:22:02+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 2014 Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova 54. Dostoevsky then dedicated his life to literature, writing novels and journals and making frequent trips throughout Europe for the remainder of his life. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. Everyman’s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

Years in Soviet Prison Camps 2 Elinor Lipper plain 2021-12-17T19:07:27+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1950 Elinor Lipper 65.Violence and degradation will erode morality and produce criminality, while in contrast, “humane treatment may make a human being even of someone in whom the image of God has faded long ago” (Dostoevsky, 112).

In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. In this time, he reflected that he had nothing to read but the bible and did not spend a single moment alone.Orloff, a notorious criminal and escapee, who Alexander Petrovich describes as "a brilliant example of the victory of spirit over matter", unlike some other prisoners whose fearfulness proceeded more from their complete submission to matter. At his trial, Dostoevsky was sentenced to eight years of penal servitude in Siberia, which the judge commuted to four years followed by two years of service as a private soldier. Everything Flows 4 Vasily Solomonovich Grossman plain 2023-04-07T18:52:52+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1964 Vasily Solomonovich Grossman 55. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: A Sketch” 5 Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov plain 2021-12-17T19:18:43+00:00 1865 53.

This quote shows Dostoevsky’s conviction that individuals can become moral and redeem themselves of their criminality. The House of the Dead ( Russian: Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma) is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 [1] in the journal Vremya [2] by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.Dostoevsky describes Goryanchikov’s time in prison in detail throughout his novel and focuses primarily on observations that he makes during his first months in a hard labor camp in Siberia. Any other man would have fainted away, but no temperature is too high for him; he engages the services of a rubber for a kopeck, but after a few moments the latter is unable to continue, throws away his bunch of twigs, and runs to inundate himself with cold water. He grew up in an apartment attached to the Marinsky Hospital in Moscow, where his father worked as a doctor for charity cases (Šajkovic, 47-48). It is generally considered to be a fictionalised memoir; a loosely-knit collection of descriptions, events and philosophical discussion, organised around theme and character rather than plot, based on Dostoevsky's own experiences as a prisoner in such a setting.

But it makes just as much sense to read the book as a display of what writing can do to disclose—and sustain—the very kind of inwardness that labor camps are supposed to squash out. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia.Dostoevsky’s narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. Notes from a Dead House shows the prison camp as a tragedy for the inmates and a tragedy for Russia. Life in prison is particularly hard for Aleksandr Petrovich, since he is a "gentleman" and suffers the malice of the other prisoners, nearly all of whom belong to the peasantry. As a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was despised by most of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator—a nobleman who has killed his wife—experiences a similar struggle to adapt.