Notes from a dead house

The story “Notes from the Dead House” is based on the writer's memoirs about the years spent in the Omsk prison. According to critics, it is from this work that the genuine Dostoevsky begins with its psychologism and the depth of images. In the “Notes from the Dead House” a world opens before the reader, where violence against a human person is assumed to the usual, everyday character. This is a story telling about the fate of the outcasts, whom Dostoevsky met in hard labor. The guilty and innocent, killers and smugglers, dashing thieves and intelligent counterfeiters, nobles and peasants... Each inhabitant of a sharp “dead house”, created by Dostoevsky's pen, remains in memory forever.