The House of the Dead ~ Entire Book

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I can't say that I enjoyed reading this book. It's not the sort of book that you enjoy. I can only say that I'm very glad that I read it. I found it to be both disturbing and compelling.
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it is interesting
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Post by sally82 »

It's a good book, I like it!
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Post by Arnold Grundel »

House of the Dead? I haven't read that one. I really don't like books like that though. It just sounds gory.
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Post by victory08 »

FloorStore wrote:I love reading this book. very interesting.
I agree!!! I was listening this novel in mp3 even during the lectures (using micro earpiece ).
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I need recommendation of some better book for reading.
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Post by shenglu »

Siberian prison's "death house." This first-person narrative fiction dicusses in prison conditions, prisoners of a different personality, and how the existence of class differences, even in the confinement
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People surmised that Dostoevsky had actually killed his own wife after this was published. In truth, he was sentenced to exile in Siberia for political sedition. At one time, he was responsible for operating a print press on behalf of a faction within the Petrashevskys, which, had it been discovered, would have meant a death sentence.
"House of the Dead" espouses Dostoevsky's primary psychological premise. Specifically, it claims that with a why you can justify any how. According to him, the worst punishment conceivable is not beating or jail time or any of those conventional avenues. Rather, it is pointless work. One must have a perceived notion of a grander purpose when it comes to one's labours, an ominous implication. It asserts that the human being can endure any succession of outrages, but must be allowed to assert a 'self.' This is why the prisoners depicted in the book are prone to spontaneous drinking bouts, destructive behaviours that are against the rules, etc. They know what is in their best interests, Dostoevsky would argue, but choose to act in contravention to those interests because doing so establishes self.
This is not a prison memoir in the sense that most people see it. It could just as easily be perceived as a social critique of the world. Many of its core ideas resonate a great deal with modern culture.
"The world is a vampire/sent to drain/secret destroyers hold you up to the flames/And what do I get for my pains?/Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game."
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Post by mitchritz »

nice story really interesting to read
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This is probably my favorite book by Dostoevsky. Someone once suggested that Dostoevsky was a humanitarian, and based on the subjects he chooses to write about, one tends to think that might be the case. I read this after having read Crime and Punishment, which deals with the idea of the "extraordinary man", which correlates to some ideas that Nietzsche had. Based on the short descriptions of the characters in this book, I couldn't help but think or wonder if that was what Dostoevsky was looking for - an extraordinary man.
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Would anyone agree that Dostoevsky created these characters in some attempt to understand and control certain aspects of his own life?
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There is an unnamed character, a nobleman, who had been imprisoned for 10 years for murdering his own father who is described as having displayed "...a unique phenomenon; here there is some constitutional defect, some physical and moral abnormality which science has not yet been able to explain, not simply a question of crime." (37) However, ten years later he is found innocent of the crime and Dostoevsky writes, "...there is no need to add anymore, no need to expatiate on the tragic profundity of this case, on the young life ruined by such a dreadful accusation...We are of the opinion too, that if a case such as this is possible, this very possibility adds a new and glaring facet to the overall picture of the House of the Dead." (303)

Does Dostoevsky revealing this make the reader rethink any of their assumptions about convicts described thus far? Is this still an issue today?
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What do you think of the character A--v who is referred to as a "moral Quasimodo" who "...had sold the lives of ten men in order to obtain the immediate satisfaction of his insatiable appetite for the coarsest and most depraved pleasures." (105) Yet, he never actually killed anyone. Does the idea that he never actually killed anyone make him morally better than he would be if he had also killed the victims?
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