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Souvenirs de la maison des morts

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Souvenirs de la maison des morts" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a semi-autobiographical novel published between 1860 and 1862. The work portrays life in a Siberian prison camp through the eyes of nobleman Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Drawing from Dostoyevsky's own four-year imprisonment, the novel chronicles a spiritual awakening as the narrator overcomes revulsion toward his fellow convicts and discovers their humanity beneath the brutality of prison existence.

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