Notes from the House of the Dead - Softcover

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802866476 ISBN 13: 9780802866479

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013

Synopsis

Long before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. First published in 1861, this novel, based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a political prisoner, is a forerunner of his famous novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. The characters and situations that Dostoevsky encountered in prison were so violent and extraordinary that they changed his psyche profoundly. Through that experience, he later said, he was resurrected into a new spiritual condition — one in which he would create some of the greatest novels ever written. Including an illuminating introduction by James Scanlan on Dostoevsky's prison years, this totally new translation by Boris Jakim captures Dostoevsky's semi- autobiographical narrative — at times coarse, at times intensely emotional, at times philosophical — in rich American English. Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into English

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About the Authors

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a prominentRussiannovelist and writer and is widely considered one of themost outstanding and influential writers of modernliterature.

Boris Jakim (1949-2024) was renowned for his translations of Russian religious thought into English. His published translations include works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sergius Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, and Vladimir Solovyov.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802866476
• ISBN 13: 9780802866479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344