Anyone know why Memoirs from the House of the Dead is not included on our online-literature web site? Dostoyevsky wrote this novel in 1861, after his experience of four years in prison. I loved this book and encourage you to discover it if you have not already read it.
Hey congrats, he is an amazing author. I hope that some day I'll learn Russian so that i can read Crime and Punishment in original. My native tongue is close to Russian, but not quite. Dostoevsky and all the Russian classics is worth the while.
I've read 'Memoirs from the House of the Dead', it's a very good book and let's the reader get to know the way the writers thinks. I find it very interesting. Also it shows the reality from that time, which makes it more intriguing. I am planning to read now 'Diary of a writer' or whatever is the title for his diary :P and after it I have one book left: 'The Insulted and Humiliated'. A also have some short stories and after those I guess I'll have completed reading almost his entire writing. (There might actually be some short stories which I haven't found yet)
In the modern editions of The Possessed, Stavrogin's confession is included, usually at the end of the book. This confession was censured when Dostoyevsky was living. Today it gives us much needed light about what a victim of sexual abuse suffers interiorly, and why suicide is a frequent consequence in such cases.
My edition had the confession. I think it was the most touching and in the same time uncomfortable thing to read. But I loved it.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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