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100 1 _aDostoyevsky, Fyodor,
_d1821-1881
240 1 0 _aZapiski iz mertvogo doma. German
245 1 0 _aSämtliche Werke 18
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-15
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMuenchen: Piper, 1908
653 _aSiberia (Russia) -- Fiction
653 _aExiles -- Fiction
700 1 _aFilosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich,
_d1872-1940
700 1 _aMerezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich,
_d1865-1941
700 1 _aMoeller van den Bruck, Arthur,
_d1876-1925
700 1 _aRahsin, E. K.,
_d1886-1966
856 4 _uhttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100411705
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76303
999 _c117028
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