The House of the Dead (novel)

==Narration==

==Narration==

The first chapter, entitled "Ten years a convict", is an introduction written by an unnamed acquaintance of Goryanchikov. This narrator discusses Goryanchikov's background as a convict, his crime and his sentence, and the nature of his life as a Siberian colonist after his release. He describes Goryanchikov's intense personality and reclusive behaviour from the superficial and detached perspective of a new acquaintance who has developed a curiosity about him. He records that, upon hearing of Goryanchikov's death, he had managed to acquire some papers from the landlady, among which were the memoirs of prison life. He describes them as "incoherent and fragmentary... interrupted, here and there, either by anecdotes, or by strange, terrible recollections thrown in convulsively as if torn from the writer."{{cite book |last=Dostoevsky |first=Fyodor |date=1915 |title=The House of the Dead |translator=Constance Garnett |publisher=William Heinemann |isbn=9780434204069 |page=6 }} These memoirs, with Goryanchikov himself narrating, constitute the rest of the novel.

The first chapter, titled "Ten Years a Convict", is an introduction written by an unnamed acquaintance of Goryanchikov. This narrator discusses Goryanchikov's background as a convict, his crime and his sentence, and the nature of his life as a Siberian colonist after his release. He describes Goryanchikov's intense personality and reclusive behaviour from the superficial and detached perspective of a new acquaintance who has developed a curiosity about him. He records that, upon hearing of Goryanchikov's death, he had managed to acquire some papers from the landlady, among which were the memoirs of prison life. He describes them as "incoherent and fragmentary … interrupted, here and there, either by anecdotes, or by strange, terrible recollections thrown in convulsively as if torn from the writer."{{cite book |last=Dostoevsky |first=Fyodor |date=1915 |title=The House of the Dead |translator=Constance Garnett |publisher=William Heinemann |isbn=9780434204069 |page=6 }} These memoirs, narrated by Goryanchikov himself, constitute the rest of the novel.

==Characters==

==Characters==