Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov plain 2021-12-17T19:08:55+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 2007 Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov 55. The power of certain writing done from prison has to do with the way it alternatively staves off and gives rein to restlessness, fervor, and desperation. He undergoes extreme corporal punishment but is unbowed and quickly recovers his strength and spirit.

God Grant That I Not Go Insane" 2 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plain 2021-12-17T19:20:55+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1833 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 59. In this extensive biography of Dostoevsky, Joseph Frank situates Dostoevsky’s works in their personal, historic, and ideological contexts. To avoid censorship, Dostoevsky made his protagonist a common criminal, but the perspective is unmistakably his own.

Alexander Petrovich considers Akim Akimitch to be incapable of independent intelligence and wholly bound to notions of duty and obedience. Memoir of a Gulag Actress 2 Tamara Vladimirovna Petkevich plain 2021-12-17T19:18:21+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1993 Tamara Vladimirovna Petkevich 64. 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.

But it makes just as much sense to read the book as a display of what writing can do to disclose—and sustain—the very kind of inwardness that labor camps are supposed to squash out. It has also been published in English under the titles Notes from the House of the Dead, Memoirs from the House of the Dead and Notes from a Dead House, which are more literal translations of the Russian title. My Fellow Prisoners 2 Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky plain 2021-12-17T19:18:05+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 2014 Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky 50. Most striking in this narrative is the transformation that the aristocratic protagonist undergoes as he begins to recognize the common humanity that he shares with many of the prisoners - even with the least likable among them.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). Crime and Punishment 2 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky plain 2021-12-17T19:21:54+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1866 1879 59.

Faithful Ruslan 3 Georgi Vladimov (born Georgii Nikolaievich Volosevich) plain 2021-12-17T19:21:22+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1975 Georgi Vladimov (born Georgii Nikolaievich Volosevich) 54. It’s one of the guiding assumptions behind Notes from a Dead House that the novel as a form can accommodate the free, nimble movements even of a consciousness linked to an imprisoned body. Dostoevsky details how prison life deprives prisoners of privacy and dignity, forcing them into filthy and confined conditions.Every man, whoever he may be and however humiliated, still requires, even if instinctively, even if unconsciously, respect for his human dignity. Few books give such a vivid picture of the sort of setting from which many great works of prison literature emerge; at the same time, few show such concern for the possibility of prison literature in the first place. A beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.