Status Updates From Recordações da Casa dos Mortos

Is good

Started this right after C&P to read it as a sequel about Rodya’s “gradual renewal” in Siberia <3

Deeply interesting so far. A novel of anthropological style, Dostoevsky focuses on the lives of prisoners in a Siberian labour camp while hiding the semi-biographical narrator from our consciousness. Like the music of Johnny Cash, Dostoevsky wishes to show both the humanity and loss of self in prisoners without glossing over the cruelty of certain individuals and their crimes. Even in hell, humans strive to connect.