You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Memoir of a Gulag Actress 2 Tamara Vladimirovna Petkevich plain 2021-12-17T19:18:21+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1993 Tamara Vladimirovna Petkevich 64. 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.

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. To Live Like Everyone 2 Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko plain 2021-12-17T19:15:43+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1978 Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko 56. Those words arrive early in Notes from a Dead House, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s extraordinary, semi-fictionalized account of the internment he endured in a Siberian prison camp after being sentenced to four years of hard labor for his involvement in a revolutionary conspiracy—and the latest installment in Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s grand, ongoing effort to retranslate the Russian canon. Many of his works are marked by a preoccupation with Christianity, explored through the prism of the individual confronted with life's hardships and beauty. The Aviator 2 Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin plain 2021-12-17T19:22:36+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 2016 Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin 65.Dostoevsky details how prison life deprives prisoners of privacy and dignity, forcing them into filthy and confined conditions. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov plain 2021-12-17T19:13:17+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1892 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 55.

Dostoevsky spent four years in a forced-labour prison camp in Siberia following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. 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. He is described as always "in the liveliest, merriest spirits", and unwavering in his denial of his guilt, a denial that Goryanchikov is inclined to believe.He concludes that the existence of the prison, with its absurd practices and savage corporal punishments, is a tragic fact, both for the prisoners and for Russia. Murder" 2 Anton Pavlovich Chekov plain 2021-12-17T19:20:11+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1895 Anton Pavlovich Chekov 55. Dostoevsky’s narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 2 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn plain 2021-12-17T19:17:50+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1959 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 51.

You could also argue that he came to the less lofty conclusion that Alexander Petrovich, the author of the found text that comprises most of Notes from a Dead House, arrives at in a late chapter: that the Russian working class is too unruly, too temperamentally varied, and too frustratingly human to bear any generalizations well. Akim Akimitch, one of the few other noblemen in the prison, befriends Alexander Petrovich and teaches him about the ways of prison life. Of course, prisons and the system of forced labor do not correct the criminal; they only punish him and ensure society against the evildoer’s further attempts on its peace and quiet.After he was sentenced, subjected to a harrowing mock-execution, and shipped off to a grim labor camp in the southern Siberian city of Omsk, he wrote no fiction for four years.

Moreover, Dostoevsky offers sharp commentary on the purpose of prison, arguing that it is not one of reformation or transformation, but punishment and deprivation. Goryanchikov describes himself consistently as being treated as an outsider by the other convicts, rejected socially because he is a nobleman. 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. Man is Wolf to Man 2 Janus Bardach plain 2021-12-17T19:18:29+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1998 Janus Bardach 64.The first chapter, entitled "Ten years a convict", is an introduction written by an unnamed acquaintance of Goryanchikov. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) 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. Turgenev, who was also not enamored of Dostoevsky's larger scale fiction (particularly Demons and Crime and Punishment), described the bath-house scene from House of the Dead as "simply Dantesque". The main elements of his story became the central theme of The Brothers Karamazov and the initial inspiration for the character of Dimitri Karamazov.