bailedI read most of this, according to The Serial Reader I‘ve read more than 70% of it but gave up after the chapter of beating up a girl for absolutely no reason.
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The House of the Dead: A Novel in Two Parts | 
bailedI read most of this, according to The Serial Reader I‘ve read more than 70% of it but gave up after the chapter of beating up a girl for absolutely no reason.
April .leave it to me to pick a novel from 1862 .😂this semi autobiographical novel was where Dostoevsky cut his chops on developing characters & worked on the psychological elements of his novels .So not plot driven.I felt I was there .😱I adore this cover of this old Grove Press Evergreen edition that has lived in my collection for years. #12Booksof2022
pickYou can tell early on that Dostoevsky is sharpening his tools of description for the more psychological work to come.A reprieve from the firing squad sent him to prison in Siberia .His eyes were opened to all different types of people, many types of trauma.This is a Constance Garnett translation.I have heard some contemporary translations are better, this copy has been in my collection for years , I adore the cover so decided to read this version.
pickThis is my favorite read so far this year. I read poor Dover Thrift translations of The Gambler and The Double in high school; these low quality translations made me think Dostoyevsky was my least favorite Russian author. Well, 20 years and a stellar translation later, I‘m ready to change my opinion. Dostoyevsky is an absolute humanist revelation in this lightly fictionalized account of his time in a Siberian labor prison. He‘s my new dead BF 🖤
And with that, I have actually read everything on my July tbr. I don't think that's ever happened before!
The Mother's Birthiversary celebration has come to a close, but we ended up with a pretty great selection of souvenirs. Some were Bryan's picks, most were mine. Some were used, some were given, and a couple were ordered in advance. But most importantly, all of them are BOOKS! Yay!
Dostoyevsky himself spent 4 years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the convicts. In this account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail.
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