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challenging
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Amazing. I’m salivating at the thought of reading this book again.
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challenging
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Prieš kelis mėnesius, kai pirkau "idiotą", norėjau nusipirkti ir šią knygą, bet mane atkalbėjo. Šio savo sprendimo gailėsiuosi dar ilgą laiką, nes šis kūrinys man patiko ir paveikė mane daugiau nei "idiotas".
Skaitydamas knygą gali pajusti, jog rašoma iš patirties, jog tai nėra eilinis rašytojo išmislas. Aprašoma kalinių kasdienybė, kaip jie jaučiasi esą žmones, o ne nusikaltėliai. Daug minčių turiu apie šią knygą, bet per ilgai užtrukčiau bandydama jas išdėstyti. Jau ir taip ilgai užlaikiau Ivetos knygą.
Skaitydamas knygą gali pajusti, jog rašoma iš patirties, jog tai nėra eilinis rašytojo išmislas. Aprašoma kalinių kasdienybė, kaip jie jaučiasi esą žmones, o ne nusikaltėliai. Daug minčių turiu apie šią knygą, bet per ilgai užtrukčiau bandydama jas išdėstyti. Jau ir taip ilgai užlaikiau Ivetos knygą.
I remember that only the passionate desire for resurrection, renewal, a new life, gave me the strength to wait and hope. And I finally pulled myself together: I waited, I counted off each day, and, though there were a thousand left, I counted off each one with delight, bade farewell to it, buried it, and, with the coming of the new day, rejoiced that it was no longer a thousand, but nine hundred and ninety-nine.
Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My favorite writer. Dostoevsky is the great psychologist of Russian literature. He has a special ability to make one look at people in a new light.
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It’s all about perspective right? At my age Dostoevsky was sentenced you hard labor in Siberia. Makes my quarantine look like a spa trip. During this time, he observed and pondered... His depiction of prison life and the struggles inside each imprisoned soul is deeply stirring. Leaves one with much to consider. Recommend.
#notesfromadeadhousw #dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
.
My favorite writer. Dostoevsky is the great psychologist of Russian literature. He has a special ability to make one look at people in a new light.
.
It’s all about perspective right? At my age Dostoevsky was sentenced you hard labor in Siberia. Makes my quarantine look like a spa trip. During this time, he observed and pondered... His depiction of prison life and the struggles inside each imprisoned soul is deeply stirring. Leaves one with much to consider. Recommend.
#notesfromadeadhousw #dostoevsky
Notes from a Dead House is Dostoevsky’s prison memoir thinly disguised as a novel. I’m working my way through 9 of Dostoevsky’s works, of which this is the second that I’m coming to. As with The Double, this is a good read for what he’s attempting to achieve, he hasn’t yet attempted anything the world will stand up and notice.
This work reads much easier than The Double, no doubt a large part of that is due to the insanity of Goliadkin. Here we get a very clear portrait of life in prison in Siberia. The camp is described in detail, loneliness, the food, the beatings where prisoners are commonly sentenced to being stuck four thousand times. There’s an array of fellow inmates presented from whom Dostoevsky begins formulating his ideas of the peasantry (he was a noble before being sentenced to prison). In some ways work saves them, as does the mad scramble for money just to have the freedom to choose to squander it (or have it stolen). And for what? And who is to blame? Those are Dostoevsky’s questions. Prison seems like a waste, and does it actually benefit society? I would answer that it’s situational and there’s way too many situations where it doesn’t, even more than 150 year later.
If you want to understand how Dostoevsky came to write his future novels this is a good one to check out, more so than The Double. Serves as a good prison memoir as well. Notes from the Underground is next.
This work reads much easier than The Double, no doubt a large part of that is due to the insanity of Goliadkin. Here we get a very clear portrait of life in prison in Siberia. The camp is described in detail, loneliness, the food, the beatings where prisoners are commonly sentenced to being stuck four thousand times. There’s an array of fellow inmates presented from whom Dostoevsky begins formulating his ideas of the peasantry (he was a noble before being sentenced to prison). In some ways work saves them, as does the mad scramble for money just to have the freedom to choose to squander it (or have it stolen). And for what? And who is to blame? Those are Dostoevsky’s questions. Prison seems like a waste, and does it actually benefit society? I would answer that it’s situational and there’s way too many situations where it doesn’t, even more than 150 year later.
If you want to understand how Dostoevsky came to write his future novels this is a good one to check out, more so than The Double. Serves as a good prison memoir as well. Notes from the Underground is next.
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated