Titre : | The House Of The Dead | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Fjodor Dostojewski (1821-1881), Auteur | Mention d'édition : | 1860 | Editeur : | London [United Kingdom] : Penguin | Année de publication : | 1985 | Importance : | 362p | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-14-044456-8 | Langues : | Anglais Langues originales : Russe | Note de contenu : | 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. | Nature du document : | Roman | Genre : | Autobiographie, biographie/Drame, Tragédie/Historique/Récit de vie |
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