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Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist

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The Czar and the House of the Dead

Wrihtes was sentenced to five years in penal servitude, which is not a great sentence either. But he only serves four years of the sentence and then has to go to military service after his prison sentence. He writes about that in e notes from the house of the dead. It sort of a, it's a novel, but it's clearly about himself living in this russian prison.

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