Samuel Willoughby’s Reviews > Notes from a Dead House > Status Update
Samuel Willoughby
is 71% done
I love how Dostoevsky explores this atypical paradigm where good can arise in bad people, i.e the prisoners, while bad can arise in good people, i.e. the “gentlemen” executioners.
There were some passages from this chapter that were strikingly relevant to current times, as Dostoevsky spells out the poisonous consequences of an indifferent society towards tyranny.
— 7 hours, 41 min ago
There were some passages from this chapter that were strikingly relevant to current times, as Dostoevsky spells out the poisonous consequences of an indifferent society towards tyranny.
Like flag
Samuel’s Previous Updates
Samuel Willoughby
is 40% done
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.
— Jan 14, 2026 12:28AM
