overview
In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail.
The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno.
Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces.
other editions (26)
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地下室手记 中信出版社 2025 -
地下室手记 四川文艺出版社 2025 -
地下室手记 上海译文出版社 2025 -
地下室手记 上海译文出版社 2024 -
地下室手记 人民文学出版社 2021 -
地下室手记 浙江文艺出版社 2020 -
地下室手记 浙江文艺出版社 2020 -
地下室手记 漓江出版社 2019 -
地下室手記 櫻桃園文化 2018 -
Anteckningar från underjorden Bakhåll 2017 -
地下室手記 櫻桃園文化 2014 -
死屋手记 上海译文出版社 2014 -
地下室手记 生活.读书.新知三联书店 2014 -
地下室手记 漓江出版社 2012 -
地下室手记 河北教育出版社 2010 -
Yeraltından Notlar Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları 2008 -
Notes from the Underground Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd. 2008 -
Kældermennesket Kælderbiblioteket 2007 -
the house of the dead Dover Publications 2004 -
Notes from Underground Everyman's Library 2004 -
Notes from the Underground Dover Publications Inc. 2000 -
地下室手记 解放军文艺出版社 1997 -
Ricordi dal sottosuolo Adelphi 1995 -
Notes from Underground Vintage Classics 1994 -
Notes from Underground Bantam USA 1920 -
地下室手記 桂冠世界文學名著 None