{"product_id":"notes-from-a-dead-house-fyodor-dostoyevsky-paperback","title":"Notes from a Dead House -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, hailed as \"the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), comes a masterful translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A master of psychological portraiture. . . . A testament to the power of the human will, the way it can marshal patience and imagination and hope.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Criterion \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing.\u003ci\u003e Notes from a Dead House \u003c\/i\u003e(sometimes translated as \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e) depicts brutal punishments, feuds, betrayals, and the psychological effects of confinement, but it also reveals the moments of comedy and acts of kindness that Dostoevsky witnessed among his fellow prisoners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo get past government censors, Dostoevsky made his narrator a common-law criminal rather than a political prisoner, but the perspective is unmistakably his own. His incarceration was a transformative experience that nourished all his later works, particularly \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e. Dostoevsky's narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. His story is, finally, a profound meditation on freedom: \"The prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fyodor Dostoyevsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.8\" H x 5.1\" L x 0.9\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780307949875\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526451040560,"sku":"9780307949875","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780307949875.jpg?v=1774950551","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/notes-from-a-dead-house-fyodor-dostoyevsky-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}