The Peasant Marey (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- First Published: 1876
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical
- Time of Work: 1850 or 1851, with a flashback to 1830
- Setting: A prison camp in Omsk, Siberia; a country estate near Moscow
- Principal Characters: The narrator (Dostoevski), The peasant Marey
- Genres: Short fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Prisons, Religion, Faith, Peasantry or peasants, Siberia or Siberians
The Story
Fyodor Dostoevski spent the years 1850 to 1854 in a prison camp in Siberia, and in “The Peasant Marey” he recalls an episode in the camp that made him remember a still earlier incident from twenty years before. Thus, “The Peasant Marey” is a story-within-a-story, a recollection of two important experiences in the author's past.
The setting is Easter week in 1850 or 1851, and the prisoners are enjoying a rare holiday. The weather is pleasant, and the inmates are drinking and brawling. Violence and disorder prevail in a brutal atmosphere. A drunken...
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