His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Dostoevsky’s narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. His story is, finally, a profound meditation on freedom: “The prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being. Comradely Greetings 2 Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova plain 2021-12-17T19:22:02+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 2014 Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova 54.

From this cloud stood out torn backs, shaved heads; and, to complete the picture, Isaiah Fomitch howling with joy on the highest of the benches. The Seven Who Were Hanged 4 Leonid Nikolaievich Andreev plain 2022-01-01T19:36:44+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1908 Leonid Nikolaievich Andreev 59. Crime or Punishment: Russian Narratives of Incarceration Main Menu Introduction About Texts Analysis Comparison | Expansion | Contextualization Synthesis Feedback José Vergara 9d7e6dfed9d57006cb53f94a7107fbf1500f2da2 Notes from a Dead House 1 2021-09-14T21:40:31+00:00 Alice McGrath b7aea6f9eb931a0b52c3f000b791e5f42278a98f 1 3 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky plain 2021-12-17T19:17:58+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1862 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 54. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia.Requiem 2 Anna Andreevna Akhmatova plain 2021-12-17T19:17:02+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1961 Anna Andreevna Akhmatova 59. Rather than transforming prisoners, he argues that incarceration produces their criminality by placing them in conditions which will turn even decent men into immoral beings. The account he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, was the first book to reveal life inside the Russian penal system.

BIOGRAPHY: Known for “the profundity, complexity, and significance of his spiritual experience," Fyodor Dostoevsky has been praised as one of the most influential Russian novelists in history (Mirsky, 279). Memoirs of a Revolutionist 2 Vera Nikolayevna Figner plain 2021-12-17T19:18:13+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1926 Vera Nikolayevna Figner 59. The Kreutzer Sonata 2 Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy plain 2021-12-17T19:18:56+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1889 Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy 55.However, there was a degree of alteration or embellishment in some characters and events for the sake of imparting greater depth to his themes. No prison writing is professional, but nor is any of it exactly recreational; it comes, by definition, from environments where “any self-willed display of personality … is considered a crime. He also undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. One formative moment of Dostoevsky’s prison time was a staged execution designed to convince him and his fellow convicts that they were being subjected to the death penalty. After the Ball" 2 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy plain 2021-12-17T19:09:49+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1911 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 55.

His mother died in 1837, when he was 15, and around the same time he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. Kolyma Tales 2 Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov plain 2021-12-17T19:19:02+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1973 Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov 61.Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: A Sketch” 5 Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov plain 2021-12-17T19:18:43+00:00 1865 53. He describes Goryanchikov's intense personality and reclusive behaviour from the superficial and detached perspective of a new acquaintance who has developed a curiosity about him. In 1932 The House of the Dead was made into a film, directed by Vasili Fyodorov and starring Nikolay Khmelyov. To avoid censorship, Dostoevsky made his protagonist a common criminal, but the perspective is unmistakably his own. Man is Wolf to Man 2 Janus Bardach plain 2021-12-17T19:18:29+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1998 Janus Bardach 64.