Notes from a Dead House (Vintage Classics)

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He also undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. The account he wrote afterward, Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead), is filled with vivid details of brutal punishments, shocking conditions, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom and hope, but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, and the acts of kindness he observed. Rothenburg or the History of The Man Reforged" 2 Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko plain 2021-12-17T19:16:53+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1935 Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko 63.

In 1849 Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for his participation in a utopian socialist discussion group.My Fellow Prisoners 2 Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky plain 2021-12-17T19:18:05+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 2014 Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky 50. Forced into close quarters with murderers, thieves, and petty criminals, Dostoyevsky came to believe, as Frank puts it, “in the moral beauty of the Russian peasantry, its infinite capacity to love and forgive those who had for so long sinned against it. The Captain’s Daughter 2 Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin plain 2021-12-17T19:22:08+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1836 Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin 55.

Kolyma Tales 2 Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov plain 2021-12-17T19:19:02+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1973 Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov 61. Ward No 6 2 Karen Shakhnazarov + Aleksandr Vasilevich Gornovsky plain 2021-12-17T19:13:08+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 2009 Karen Shakhnazarov + Aleksandr Vasilevich Gornovsky 56. BIOGRAPHY: Known for “the profundity, complexity, and significance of his spiritual experience," Fyodor Dostoevsky has been praised as one of the most influential Russian novelists in history (Mirsky, 279). In Russian and French Prisons 2 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin plain 2021-12-17T19:19:47+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1886 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin 59.Faithful Ruslan 3 Georgi Vladimov (born Georgii Nikolaievich Volosevich) plain 2021-12-17T19:21:22+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1975 Georgi Vladimov (born Georgii Nikolaievich Volosevich) 54. This narrator discusses Goryanchikov's background as a convict, his crime and his sentence, and the nature of his life as a Siberian colonist after his release. 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. After the Ball" 2 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy plain 2021-12-17T19:09:49+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1911 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 55.

How this young man preserved his tender heart, his native honesty, his frank cordiality without getting perverted and corrupted during his period of hard labour, is quite inexplicable. Most of the book’s action revolves around the convicts’ attempts to make room for some color and change in their days: card games, knife fights, thefts, drinking sprees, escape attempts, holiday celebrations, a play. Notes from a Dead House shows the prison camp as a tragedy for the inmates and a tragedy for Russia. In short, the right of corporal punishment, granted to one man over another, is one of the plagues of society, one of the most powerful means of annihilating in it any germ, any attempt at civility, and full grounds for its inevitable and ineluctable corruption” (197).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. The Aviator 2 Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin plain 2021-12-17T19:22:36+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 2016 Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin 65.

Crime or Punishment: Russian Narratives of Incarceration Main Menu Introduction About Texts Analysis Comparison | Expansion | Contextualization Synthesis Feedback José Vergara 9d7e6dfed9d57006cb53f94a7107fbf1500f2da2 Notes from a Dead House 1 2021-09-14T21:40:31+00:00 Alice McGrath b7aea6f9eb931a0b52c3f000b791e5f42278a98f 1 3 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky plain 2021-12-17T19:17:58+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1862 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 54. Requiem 2 Anna Andreevna Akhmatova plain 2021-12-17T19:17:02+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1961 Anna Andreevna Akhmatova 59.Freedom to Breathe" 2 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn plain 2021-12-17T19:21:02+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1960 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 54.