This book is the fruit of Dostoevsky's personal experience, as he talks about what he himself suffered in prison, although he attributes the memoirs to a man he named Alexander Goryanchkov. He describes the feelings of losing his freedom, and living with murderers and thieves who harbor intense enmity towards him because he belongs to the class of gentlemen who oppress the people.
But Dostoevsky does not drown in pessimistic feelings, but with time he distinguishes between the bad guys and the good guys, and finds among the prisoners some whose crimes can be understood and even excused from the point of view of morality. It provides us with a powerful picture of prison life, including its misery, high human relations, exchange of benefits, trade... and other things that one would find difficult to imagine.
Dostoevsky criticizes the prison system, saying, "We must admit the truth: These men possess wonderful treasures.... Perhaps they are among our people among the greatest talents and enriched them with energies, but their excellent faculties have perished irreversibly. Who is guilty?"
As usual, Dostoevsky descends into the deep recesses of the human soul, and explores what is in its depths of a nature that the mind does not control or realize. He studies the psychology of the prisoner in his cruelty and his willingness to give what he has in the face of a gesture of sympathy and human affection. He also studies the psychology of the executioner, who, if he was the best of people, his heart hardens due to the influence of habit, so he becomes a wild animal.
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“These days I was feeling very distressed, so I picked up the book “Memories from the House of the Dead” and re-read it. I had forgotten a lot of it, so when I read it again I became sure that there is not a single book in all of the new literature that surpasses it, not even Pushkin's books.
It is not the tone that is remarkable about it, but the point of view that is involved in it; It's honest, natural Christian, it's a book that teaches religion
If you see Dostoevsky, tell him I love him.” Tolstoy
Number of pages : 432
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