03006cam a22003853u 4500 76303 UtSlPG 20260610134751.0 m cr n 260607r20251908utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG de iso639-1 PG Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 Zapiski iz mertvogo doma. German Sämtliche Werke 18 Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-06-15 The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. "Sämtliche Werke 18 : Aus einem Totenhause" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a semi-autobiographical novel written in the mid-19th century. It depicts life inside a Siberian penal colony through the eyes of Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman convicted of killing his wife, and blends stark observation with deep psychological insight. The focus is on daily routines, punishments, the prison economy, and the surprising mix of brutality and human feeling among convicts. The opening of the work begins with an editor’s meditation on Siberia’s future and a short preface locating the author’s exile, then frames the story through a narrator who meets the reclusive Goryanchikov in a provincial town; after Goryanchikov’s death, the narrator finds and presents his prison notes. Those notes first map the “Ostrogg”: its palisades, barracks, roll calls, guards, and the segregated classes of inmates with their distinctive clothing and shaved heads. Goryanchikov records the convicts’ social code—pride, touchiness, intrigue, and a conspicuous lack of overt remorse—illustrated by episodes like a fearless inmate facing punishment and a chilling father-murderer who speaks lightly of his crime. He argues that the worst torment is not the physical labor but enforced communal living and the humiliating futility of compelled work, while survival depends on private crafts, clandestine trade and smuggling, and small alms from townsfolk. Early scenes sketch winter routines, coarse food, the stifling barracks, and the abrasive, bantering camaraderie that defines everyday life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Muenchen: Piper, 1908 Siberia (Russia) -- Fiction Exiles -- Fiction Filosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich, 1872-1940 Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich, 1865-1941 Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur, 1876-1925 Rahsin, E. K., 1886-1966 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100411705 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76303 117028 117028