A review by ipb1
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.0

Genuinely much chirpier than I expected. I'm not suggesting it was the full Butlin's experience, but next to other Siberian prison narratives such as Solzhenitsyn's [b:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich|852538|One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1580834282l/852538._SX50_.jpg|838042] or Shalamov's [b:Kolyma Tales|109812|Kolyma Tales|Varlam Shalamov|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1465777117l/109812._SY75_.jpg|105834] Dostoyevsky's experience at least sounds survivable. As ever, and even this early on in his writing career, his focus is more on the psychological trauma than the physical deprivation.