Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia - Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles

These eyewitness accounts, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, introduce the reader to Dostoevsky's unfortunates from the Dead House¿¿condemned to share with him Russia's carceral system of confinement, interrogations, denunciations, and hostile spaces¿¿whose psychoses become the writer's obsession in his celebrated crime novels.

About the author

Elizabeth Blake is an assistant professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Saint Louis University and author of Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground (Northwestern 2014). Her articles on Fedor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, and Polish exiles have appeared in Dostoevsky Studies, Slavic and East European Journal, Polish Review, and edited collections.

Summary

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elizabeth A Blake (Editor), Elizabeth A. Blake (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781644690215
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-021-5
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: Studies in Comparative Literat; Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories