The Dead Gambler

Mar 27, Steve Evans rated it it was amazing. This is a thinly disguised autobiographical novel that is a compelling view of life in prison in midth century Russia. In some ways it is surprising that in a country that at the time practised widespread censorship that it was able to be published, though perhaps the authorities thought it would "encourager les autres".

In any case it is "typical" Dostoevsky fare - that is to say, terrific in its understated, realistic horror. There are also - typically - strange faults, as the narrator, who This is a thinly disguised autobiographical novel that is a compelling view of life in prison in midth century Russia. There are also - typically - strange faults, as the narrator, who in the beginning supposedly killed his wife and was released to live out his days in Siberia, is transformed at the end into a "political" - as Dostoevsky was in fact.

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Dostoevsky spent four years in prison in Siberia and a further ten in the military on his release. Crime and Punishment and this book followed his return to St Petersburg. The Russian prison novel has a tradition of its own and this fits somewhere in the middle; later books, like Koestler's Darkness at Noon and several of Solzhenitsyn's, suggest that the Russia has known for a long time about locking people up and making their lives a misery.

Mar 20, Dimitri rated it liked it Shelves: While some of Dostojevski's authobiographical observations of prison life are only comprehensible to those knowledgable about customs of tsarist Russia, others resonate through the gulags down to the present day, as you can tell a lot about a society by observing its prisoners.

I am no crusader for prison reform at heart, but one of his closing statements tugs a string: After all, one must t While some of Dostojevski's authobiographical observations of prison life are only comprehensible to those knowledgable about customs of tsarist Russia, others resonate through the gulags down to the present day, as you can tell a lot about a society by observing its prisoners. After all, one must tell the whole truth; these men were exceptional men And who was to blame?

Most can find contentment in the security of a regular life, even if they need to learn it behind bars first.

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Jan 11, Hayley rated it liked it. The House of the Dead was a bit on the disappointing side. For something that was inspired by his own imprisonment, I had hoped for something with a bit more passion.

What I got was a meandering, timeless mess of recollections that left practically no impression whatsoever. The writing was good, but if the structure isn't there, then it leaves a lot to be desired. The far superior novel in this collection, The Gambler is a fascinating look at the dangers of gambling, as well as the kind of socia The House of the Dead was a bit on the disappointing side.

The far superior novel in this collection, The Gambler is a fascinating look at the dangers of gambling, as well as the kind of social scheming that I'm a great fan of. Perhaps a bit simple at times, but well constructed and engaging. Jul 01, Danny rated it liked it Shelves: Very similar to The Idiot , published two years later in No writer that I know of is nearly so tragic and compelling in communicating the absurdity and brutality of human psychology itself.

A true mystic, and as said, iirc, by Jung, Dostoyevsky is the greatest psychologist. Dec 24, John rated it really liked it. A fascinating read, a very vivid, candid and elegantly straightforward account of life in a Russian penal colony. Dostoyevsky was able to pass along the lessons and anecdotes he bitterly learned over years of hard labor. Jan 22, Melanie rated it really liked it.

Iulia Barutia rated it really liked it Sep 11, Danos Aptalidis rated it it was amazing Oct 29, Carl Savich rated it it was amazing Aug 26, Tom Wiley rated it liked it Jul 03, Ruth Thomas rated it liked it Jan 21, Simon rated it really liked it Aug 31, Rob rated it really liked it Dec 22, Haim rated it liked it Jul 13, Pearce rated it liked it Sep 08, Phani Tholeti rated it liked it Jul 20, John rated it it was amazing Jan 22, Vladyslava Karpliuk rated it it was amazing Oct 03, He was initially sentenced to death, but this was commuted to a prison sentence in a penal colony in Siberia, where he spent four years, followed by four years serving as a private soldier.

He returned to St Petersburg in , having abandoned Socialism for a new belief in religion. In Dostoevsky married Maria Isaev and two years later he resigned from the army. During the early s he travelled extensively in Europe, including a visit to London which he found very depressing because of his impressions of life in that city at the time. Both his wife and brother died in and Dostoevsky became loaded with debt, made worse by a personal addiction to gambling.

In Dostoevsky married Anna Snitkin, with whom he travelled abroad until By the time that his book The Karamazov Brothers was published, Dostoevsky had become recognised within his own country as one of Russia s greatest writers. He suffered from epilepsy all his life and died in St Petersburg on February 9th, Dostoyevsky's works of fiction include fifteen novels and novellas, seventeen short stories, and five translations. During the twentieth century he became the most widely read Russian author in England.

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Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence 20 murders in his four main novels was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. If you lose, no worries, just rejoin the game and try again until you finish the challenge. To win dominoes, you need to get rid of all your tiles as quickly as possible, but will be forced to draw one whenever you can't play your turn.

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